Has Red Bull already solved the problem? Mekies also contradicts Marko

22:03, 03 Aug

Updated: 22:04, 03 Aug

byTim Kraaij

Red Bull Racing team boss Laurent Mekies also believes that Helmut Marko's comments were a bit rushed. Mekies hopes that Hungary was an incident, but admits to not knowing what the real problem is.

Red Bull Racing had a disastrous weekend in Hungary, where they ultimately only managed to score two points. According to Helmut Marko, this was an incident, and Red Bull already knew what the problem was and it wouldn't occur again. Laurent Mekies told the written media, including GPblog, something different.

"The honest answer is that if we knew, we would probably have fixed it. What I can tell you is that it was there from the first lap in FT1, like we look at each other and say, we say, what's going on? And we could see, you know, in all the slow speed, medium speed, we had just very slow minimum speed."

He continued, "It was something we couldn't say that it was balance-related. So we felt that we couldn't put the car in the right window, we couldn't switch on the tyres."

"We couldn't put the car in it in the right way. We know we couldn't switch on the tires, but sometimes it happens in FP1, but not in that magnitude. You know, it felt wrong from the beginning, and we tried very many things."

Mekies said, "The good thing is that the guys really went out and tried with both cars different things, didn't make any difference, we couldn't switch on tires, long run, short run."

What went wrong with Max Verstappen?

"Sometimes it makes you get by luck or by merit in the right window, but this never quite happened, and it was like that in qualifying. Of course, you can always look at your best sample and think that this was actually all right, but the truth is, in every race, it never quite came back."

Although Mekies' statements contradicted Helmut Marko's earlier remarks, when confronted with those statements, Mekies did not want to directly contradict Marko.

"It's been a theme this year to say that the window is narrow and sometimes very narrow. I think today was a lot more than that, today was really, I think, I got to kick the cup again."

After the Grand Prix, Max Verstappen stated that he disagreed with Marko's statement. Verstappen thought Marko's statement was a bit rushed and wanted to first analyse with the team what had really happened.