Former Red Bull chief advisor Helmut Marko has not ruled out the possibility of the team soon rejoining the fight at the front of the F1 field.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Milton Keynes-based squad has been largely absent from the battle at the front during the opening phase of the season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It has scored just one podium in the first seven rounds, courtesy of Max Verstappen, who finished third at the Canadian Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Mercedes has been the dominant force so far, taking six wins from the opening seven races.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, its campaign has not been entirely faultless, with George Russell and Kimi Antonelli both suffering engine failures in Canada and Barcelona respectively.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the new regulations, Mercedes is clearly the favourite,\u201d\u00a0Marko told Kleine Zeitung.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, they\u2019ve now suffered their second engine failure, which is unusual for them.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Ferrari brought itself into the fight in Barcelona by introducing a significant upgrade package to the event.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Red Bull is expected to unveil a sizeable enhancement at its home round this weekend, which Marko is hopeful will see his former team leap up the pecking order.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally speaking, it has to be said that updates are certainly more effective at this stage of the regulations; you can gain a five-tenths-of-a-second advantage,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cRed Bull is fielding a car at the weight limit for the first time, so they\u2019ll certainly be in the mix too.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope Max can then compete at the front. Mercedes are the favourites, but the rest of the field is more than interesting.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Red Bull chief advisor Helmut Marko has not ruled out the possibility of the team soon rejoining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755408,"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-755407","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\/755407","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=755407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}