Charles Leclerc has warned that Max Verstappen and Red Bull are very much back in the mix, with the Dutchman not “leaving anything on the table”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bull has made huge strides since introducing a new floor at the Italian GP and is unbeaten since fitting the upgrade to Verstappen’s RB21.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Verstappen has won back-to-back races, reducing his deficit in the drivers’ title to 69 points with seven rounds remaining.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It has also brought Red Bull back into contention for second in the constructors’ championship, a position Ferrari has held for much of the campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, recent struggles has seen Ferrari fall to third behind Mercedes, while only 18 points separate the Silver Arrows, the Scuderia and Red Bull in fourth.<\/p>\n
Other than McLaren, Red Bull is the only team to have won multiple races this campaign, with Ferrari still yet to claim a grand prix victory in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Verstappen and Red Bull’s recent form has convinced Leclerc that the Milton Keynes-based outfit has moved ahead of Ferrari in terms of performance, although does not believe it is back to dominating the sport.<\/p>\n
“I think Max is not leaving anything on the table, that’s for sure,” Leclerc told select media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think they’ve done a big step forward with the car, and they are now at a very strong level as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I don’t think that it’s been a very smooth weekend for McLaren in the last two races. So, I don’t think that Red Bull is now dominating again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think it’s very close between McLaren and Red Bull, but Max is doing a better job at the moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charles Leclerc has warned that Max Verstappen and Red Bull are very much back in the mix, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-189471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}