Red Bull suffered from another Grand Prix weekend plagued with issues at the Hungarian GP, as the team\u2019s poor form continues in 2025. <\/p>\n
Max Verstappen<\/a>\u2018s current four-race streak without a podium is the longest the Dutchman has gone without tasting champagne after a race since the start of the 2018 season. <\/p>\n The reigning world champion has already ruled himself out of winning another race this season. By publicly saying this, Bernie Collins thinks Verstappen has demotivated Red Bull<\/a> staff who work tirelessly to try and fix the issues he is facing with the RB21. <\/p>\n Verstappen\u2019s frustrations have put Pierre Wache under pressure<\/a>, with the exit of Christian Horner at the start of July making the technical director\u2019s position at the team vulnerable.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Red Bull driver Max Verstappen\u2019s life outside F1 from net worth to girlfriend<\/a><\/p>\n Laurent Mekies and Helmut Marko didn\u2019t have much of an explanation for Red Bull\u2019s lack of pace<\/p>\n Speaking in a Q&A episode of The Race F1 Podcast, journalist Scott Mitchell-Malm pointed out something worrying he heard from Laurent Mekies<\/a> after he brushed off Red Bull\u2019s grip issues, saying, \u201cI was a little bit worried about that. <\/p>\n \u201cYou say it was just a tyre thing because it just did feel a little bit like Helmut Marko and Laurent Mekies were just being a little bit too much, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s definitely going to be a one-off because this is just too weird.\u2019 That just seemed to be the extent of the explanation they had for it.<\/p>\n \u201cI just thought it was odd because obviously that won\u2019t be all that they do. But considering they were openly saying, \u2018Well, we don\u2019t know what the problem was, otherwise we would have changed it.\u2019 <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see how you can say that and then be so convinced like they were that it would be a one-off. I\u2019m sure that\u2019s based on the fact that they\u2019ve done a lot of experiments over the weekend. <\/p>\n \u201cSo once they\u2019ve had time to reflect afterwards and done their analysis, they\u2019ll see the root causes and they\u2019ll know how to address it for the future. But it did feel a little bit convenient to just go, \u2018It\u2019s just getting the tyres to work\u2019, as if that\u2019s going to be just like the only time this season that becomes a factor.\u201d<\/p>\n