Red Bull team principღal Christ🍸ian Horner reckons Pierre Gasly needs a mental “Ctrl+Alt+Del” reset in order to recover from his difficult start to the 2019 Formula 1 season.

Max Verstappen scored Red Bull’s first win of the season at last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix and moved up to third in the drivers’ championship, with Gasly only able to manage seventh on his way to being lapped 🔥by ꧙the Dutchman.

The Frenchman has en🔯dured a tough campaign since his graduation from Toro Rosso and is yet to finish higher than fifth, leading to suggestions he could be replaced by 💦Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat or Alexander Albon.

But Horner re-affirmed 🅰Red Bull’s support for Gasly, adding the driver just needs one strong weekend to turn things♉ around.

“Pierre is having a tough time at the moment, we’re doingꦑ our best to support him, I th💙ink he just needs a reset,” Horner said.

“I think we have got to somehow go 🎃‘Ctrl+Alt+Del’ in his head and💞 start again. He is a quick driver.

“The problem he has got is that Max is delivering every week, and that puts more pressure on him to perform, but we’r🌸e sticking by h𓃲im.

“We ꦿstill believe in him and we’ll give him all the support we can to try and♉ nurture the talent we know he has.

“🐠There is no intention to change Pierre. He’s our driver, we’re going to work with him, we will try to get the best out of him.

“He’s having a tough time at the moment but we will do our bestඣ to support him through ꦰit.”

Gasly conceded he struggled with a number of issues throughout the race, including getting stuc🍃k in traffic, which had a “snowball effect” on🎃 his progress.

“I struggled with the traffic at the beginning and spent quite a lot of time there, and it kinda was a snowball effect with the time ✤we spe😼nt behind,” Gasly explained.

“The hotter ไeverything gets and I just struggled with that, struggled to get past ♉Kimi [Raikkonen] and the cars around, and after the pitstop I pushed too hard and destroyed the front tyres after the first few laps.

“And after that, just struggled 👍with blistering. It wasn’t the best management on my side, so it makes the afternoon quite tough.

“I think we’ve showed some more speed. Unfortunate that it was in free practice and you want to be fast on the Satur꧃day✨ and Sunday afternoon.

“But overall I think fr🧸om FP1, FP2, also Q1 and Q2 there are improvements but for sure they are not as big 𝔍as we want for sure.

“But there are a fe👍w things and we’ll keep pushing to 🌜get the results we should get and I’ll keep working to get the performance right.”