Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff insists Red Bull remain a “formidable” team and c🎃annot be written off despite their recent performance struggles.

Red Bull appeared set to dominate the 2024 season after 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen won seven of the opening 10 races, but their competitiveness has dramatically tailed off in recent months, leaving them without a victory in six grands pri🍒x.

Verstappen’s championship lead over168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris has been reduced to 62 points after he could only finish sixth at last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix, while McLaren are just eight points behind Red Bull in the constru♊ctors’ standings with eight races remaining.

Wolff admitted Red Bull’s problems have been “ဣreally weird” but warned the reigning world champions should not be underestimated.

“It is really weird. I have no insight obviously but that is not at allꦺ the Red Bull at the start of the year – dominant,” Wolff said after ✅Sunday’s race at Monza.

“I think that Max was able 🥃to keep it going for a while with his ability, but it seems now that from the sheer results - and that is what I see without understanding or knowing what is going on inside - becauseಞ it could be a blip, also.

“[Monza] was probably one of the worst r🌟aces that we have seen for many years, to hav🦩e no pace. But who am I to say that? We had two years where nothing functioned, and it was the same with Ferrari a few races ago.

“So I don’t think you can write them off. They are a formidable team and I’m sure there will be better races, but McLaren is clearly the favourite now for the constructors championship, they have two drivers ♔scoring and I bet Red Bull didn’t expect that at the beginning of the year.”

Ferrari returned to winning ways at Monza after pulling off an audacious strategy with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, marking the six💃th different victor in the last seve𒁃n rounds.

“ꩲIt is great for Formula 1, it is real rock and roll,” Wol𒊎ff said of the competition at the front of the grid.

“Look at Ferrari, they had some really off weekends and then came aliv⭕e in Zandvoort in the race, and with a clever strategy they won in Monza.

“These oscillations that we see between these top four teams is gr♕eat news for the fans 💜and great news for the sport. There are literally seven or eight cars that are able to race for a podium and that is great.”