Christian Horner has conceded that “something fundamentally” is impacting Red Bull’s on-track performance after they struggled in F1 qualifying at the Italian Grand Prix.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez could on🔥ly secure seventh and eighth on the grid fo🔯r Sunday’s race at Monza.

It’s Verstappen’s worst qualifying result since the 20♊23 Singapore Grand Prix, when he failed to make it into the top 10.

It continues Red Bull’s recent run of poor results, leaving their position at theဣ top of the F1 constructors’ championship seriously under threat.

Weirdly, Verstappen’s best time in qualifying came on used tyres in Q2 - which wღas four-tenths faster than his eventual best lap in Q3.

Reflecting on Red Bull’s issues, Horner told Sky Sports: “It’s very tricky. We simply don't understand how we did a 1m19.6s on scrubbed tyres and t𝔉hen couldn't go faster on new tyres than a 1m2ไ0s, the balance just isn't there.

“You can hear from his comments that something fundamentally is happening that we aren't on top of and we need to understand why on the older tyres we were able to do a lap-time and then on two sets of newꦆ tyres not get anywhere near it.

"In Q2, it didn't look too bad, still the handling characteristics Max were talking about, but in൩ Q3, there was something amiss that all the others can improve on new tyres but we were miles away, so we need to understand it quickly.”

In a bid to cure their issues, Red Bull reverted to anꦑ older specification of floor at the last race at Zandvoort.

However, it didn’t change much for Versta♑ppen - who ran the older floor - finishing over 22 seconds off the lead.

Horner added: “We’re looking at everything. We ran an older spec last we🌟ekend to see if that addressed the issues at all.

“The reality was we still had the same handling characteristics and issues with t𝕴hat with the earlier spec from the beginning of the year. An aw🍃ful lot of data for the guys but a lot to get our head around.

“We need to address it quickly. We෴ can see that the McLarens have made a significant step over the last few races. We’re now behind Ferrari and Mercedes here as well. A lot to do. Race points are tomorrow but obviously starting seventh and eighth, that’s going to be tough.”