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Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies is adamant the RB21 can fight for victory for the rest of the F1 season, with Max Verstappen now back in the drivers’ title fight with the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.
Red Bull team principal, Laurent Mekies, believes the RB21 is now competitive enough to challenge at all the remaining races this season. Max Verstappen is narrowing the gap in the F1 championship, with only 40 points separating him from Oscar Piastri. The team’s performance shift was triggered by a revised approach to race weekends and a successful floor upgrade at the Italian Grand Prix. The updated RB21 now performs well on various circuit types, as Verstappen has effectively demonstrated. Red Bull plans on introducing more minor developments to the car as they enter the final stretch of the season. Mekies and McLaren’s Andrea Stella foresee Red Bull and Verstappen as the strongest competitors in the upcoming races, but Mekies emphasizes that winning consistently remains a challenging task against rivals like Mercedes, McLaren, and Ferrari. Despite the improved performance, Mekies acknowledges that Red Bull will still be facing tough competition and emphasizes the need to extract the car’s full potential to aim for victory.
