Max Verstappen makes McLaren, Mercedes admission with Red Bull no longer F1’s fastest full details below ⏬ ⏬
Who broke for F1’s summer break with the fastest car on the increasingly-competitive grid?; Max Verstappen says it was no longer title leaders Red Bull, while Lewis Hamilton predicts it will be “one hell of a second half of the season” at the front amid big McLaren and Mercedes gains Max Verstappen believes he got the best result he could finishing P5, and now believes McLaren and Mercedes are ahead of Red Bull going into the summer break.Max Verstappen admits Red Bull have been overtaken by their much-improved F1 rivals and says the reigning champions “know that we have work to do” to improve when the season resumes at the end of August.For the first time since 2020, the season before Verstappen won his maiden world title, Red Bull have gone four races without a race win after the Belgian Grand Prix, the final round before the sport’s ongoing summer break.Verstappen – who had started 11th due to a grid penalty – and team-mate Sergio Perez finished what became fourth and seventh at Spa-Francorchamps after a race in which drastically improved Mercedes had initially finished one-two before George Russell’s disqualification.
