{"id":63138,"date":"2025-08-12T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63138\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T18:11:08","slug":"schumacher-names-most-disappointing-f1-team-of-2025-season-in-scathing-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/63138\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumacher names most disappointing F1 team of 2025 season in scathing assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralf Schumacher has not held back his thoughts in his scathing assessment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/red-bull-racing\" title=\"Red Bull Racing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull Racing<\/a> team. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/formula-1\" title=\"Formula 1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> driver has labelled the Austrian outfit as the \u2018biggest disappointment\u2019 from a team\u2019s perspective through the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old, talking on the Backstage Boxengasse podcast of Sky Sports Germany, stressed how the Red Bull outfit has gradually faded into irrelevance as the season has largely progressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the results now, you really have to say &#8211; and people won\u2019t like me for saying this &#8211; the biggest disappointment from a team perspective has to be Red Bull,&#8221; he began.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure, they started the season OK, but now they\u2019ve really faded into irrelevance. And the low point was honestly Budapest. I can\u2019t even remember the last time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" title=\"Max Verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a> &#8211; outside his time in Toro Rosso &#8211; was that far back.\u201dRed Bull Racing 2025 season so farThe Red Bull Racing outfit has endured a difficult season compared to the recent years; and they also made a change at team principal as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/christian-horner\" title=\"Christian Horner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Horner<\/a> was replaced by Laurent Mekies ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix.The team is in fourth place on the Constructors\u2019 Championship, after amassing only 194 points so far, with 187 of those points courtesy of four-time world champion Max Verstappen. The 2025 campaign has also witnessed Red Bull make an early driver change, with Liam Lawson replaced after just two Grand Prix by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/yuki-tsunoda\" title=\"Yuki Tsunoda\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yuki Tsunoda<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ralf Schumacher has not held back his thoughts in his scathing assessment of the Red Bull Racing team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-63138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63138","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=63138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}