63 points with six rounds to go<\/a>, but his form since Red Bull\u2019s Singapore upgrade has revived belief inside Milton Keynes. Mekies said the title fight was not part of the team\u2019s internal discussion: \u201cI\u2019m going to disappoint you a bit. The simple truth inside the team is we simply take it race by race.<\/p>\n\u201cI know it sounds like something you would just say in this room, but if you walk into our engineering room now, nobody talks about that\u2014neither before the Grand Prix nor after the weekend. We only talk about this race,\u201d insisted the Red Bull team boss.<\/p>\n
Red Bull confident upgrades have put them back in contention<\/p>\n
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Since introducing their major aerodynamic upgrade package at Singapore, Red Bull have been closer to the front at every round, with Verstappen now regularly splitting or beating the McLarens.<\/p>\n
Mekies believes that consistency can now be sustained: \u201cI think that\u2019s fair to say. We think we have enough potential in the car now to be in the fight on most tracks going forward. It doesn\u2019t mean that we will be able to win, but it probably means that if we do nail everything, extract everything out of the car on a given track, then we think we will be able to fight for the win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked whether Verstappen\u2019s self-assessed \u201c50\/50\u201d title odds were realistic, Mekies refused to put numbers on it: \u201cNo, I won\u2019t put a number on it. But I don\u2019t think it changes anything to the way we are going racing. We love pure racing. So we go to a race weekend like here in Austin, and there are probably four teams that can win the race on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Formula 1\u2019s new power unit and chassis rules coming in 2026, Mekies said Red Bull are already carrying lessons across seasons: \u201cThere are many things we can take to 2026. It is a clean sheet from the point of view of designing a car and obviously designing a PU, but it remains the fact that you will use the same people, you will use the same methodology, the same process, the same tools to go and design that car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mekies: Not worried about 2026<\/p>\n
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He credited the team\u2019s turnaround to collective persistence: \u201cIt\u2019s important to underline that the turnaround is due to the women and men in Milton Keynes who have been working on this car, not accepting the limitations of the project, trying to find solutions, not giving up, balancing 2025 and 2026.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a very large group that is led by Pierre, that has managed to turn it around after weeks and months of effort.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite growing concerns that the 2026 regulations could increase performance gaps, Mekies said he remains optimistic: \u201cNot worried. The feeling we get from jumping into the unknown is a very positive one. Even if there is an increased spread in the field, it\u2019s difficult to do better than now. You have four teams that can win pretty much every race moving forward\u2014that\u2019s difficult to match.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Verstappen lines up from pole in today\u2019s Sprint, Red Bull\u2019s revival continues to gather strength. With McLaren still leading both championships but under mounting pressure, Austin may yet prove a decisive weekend in the 2025 Formula 1 title fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull team boss Laurent Mekies insists Max Verstappen\u2019s 2025 Formula 1 title hopes remain alive but says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,9034,9148,9149,9150,9151,9152,9153],"class_list":["post-10056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-f1-news-austin","tag-f1-news-mekies","tag-f1-news-red-bull","tag-f1-news-verstappen","tag-mekies-verstappen","tag-verstappen-mekies","tag-verstappen-sprint-race-qualifying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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