Red Bull are running away with both world championships this season after enjoying an unbeaten start to 2023, having won all 12 races so far heading into F1’s summer break. 

Although the likes of Mercedes’168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc have been able to claim pole positions, the RB19 has been unmatched in terms of race pace, underlined by some of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s huge winning margins this campaign. 

And Ferrari boss Vasseur believes the F1 cost cap, which is set at $135m for each team this year, has only made the deficit for the chasing pack more꧂ difficult to bridge. ♐;

“Red Bull is also bringing upgrades and upgrades and upgrades,” Vasse🐼ur said.&n♑bsp;

“And I think that everybody is improving but the reality of the regulations and the cost gap is t𒁏hat we are improving m🔜uch less than in the past. 

“It means that when there is a gap, 𝔉and a real gap, it’s quite difficult to catch up. 

“One weekend to the others over the last four or fivಞe weekends it was a one time [Ferrari] ahead in quali, one time McLaren, one time Mercedes.

“But we are always behind Red Bull and at least in th💜e race they have still a huge gap.ꦦ”

Vasseur - who previously criticised the “very light” penalty handed out to Red Bull for their F1 cost cap breach in 2021 - stressed Ferrari 🥀are focusing on themselves, rather than looking at their rivals, in the search for improvements. 

“To catch up, it’s not that you are thinking about the Red Bull and to say well ‘wha🌱t [do] we have to do?’” Vasseur said. 

“You have to work on yourself. It means that we are developing, we are developing in every single direction, we are trying t🉐o improve aero, suspension and whatever we can do. 

“We are pushing like hell to do a better job but if you have a look, and this is crucial, with the bouncing and so, it’s not when you are bringing upgrades♌ that you are doing a huge step forward."