Helmut M🃏arko has commented on the ongoing struggles at rivals ♛Mercedes.

The Red Bul▨l advisor has described his own surpr💯ise to see the once-dominant Mercedes fail to deliver a winning car for the third season in a row.

The W15 currently languishes behind Red Bull, Ferrari and M🔯cLaren🙈.

Marko was asked bꦛy : “As an outsider you get the feeling that Mercedes are still getting worse. Shouldn't all alarm bells be ringing?”

He replied: “They probably do anyway.

“What irritates m🗹e so much is tha⭕t the car is really fast at times, and at times it runs at absolute peak times.

“Then I think: ‘Look, now they get it!’

“But that's always just a flash in the pan.”

Mercedes’ highs and lows were summed up last weekend in Chin🎶𝔉a.

Lewis Hamilton eme🌼rged from Friday’s qualifying for the spri💞nt race insisting that the W15 “came alive” after his brilliant session in wet conditions.

Ham𝄹ilton then claimed an encouraging P2 in the sprint race behind Max Verstappen.

But he made an error 🔯in qualifyin♉g for the grand prix, and explained “massive changes” in set-up from his earlier sessions.

Hamilton battled from 18th on the starting grid༺ to P9 in a Chinese Grand Prix to forget.

“I♌t doesn’t happen overnight that 🐟you slump like this,” Marko said.

“What is alarming ♐is that they have not been competitive for the third season now.”

The tipping point was ꦓthe 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, when Hamilton lost out on a record eighth title an🍌d Verstappen won his first for Red Bull.

Red Bull and Verstappen have dominated since, and the champion ღis on course for a fourth title in a row this year.

Hamilton, meanwhile, is ba🌞ttling through his final year at Mercedes before going to ♌Ferrari.