G൩uenther Steiner has questioned the significance of an upgr♌ade which Red Bull could bring to Austin.

Formula 1 returns for the final part of the s🐈eason next weekend for the United States Grand Prix in Texas.

Red Bull🐼 and Max Verstappen are desperately scrapping for the constructors’ and drivers’ titles against in-form McLaren and Lando Norris.

Ex-Haas boss and Red Bull technical operations director Steiner h✨ad his say on whether the four-week break has allowed the constructors’ champions to rebuild.

“Everything is planned beforeꦏhand. I don’t think you have any advantage,” Steiner told the Red Fla💖gs podcast.

“What is coming for Austin is already prepared.

“A week or three weeks? I don’t think the preparation level is an𒆙y different.

“The big question is: how big is this upgrade, this apparent ‘magic floor’ which is coming to Austin, goinไg to help them catch up to McLaren?

“That’s the big question. The 𒈔rest is straightforwa🌠rd.

“I don’t think catching McLaren this year will be possible. What they showed in Singapore was amaz𝄹ing.

“The Ferrari can play a bigger role than they played i🌟n Singapore in the world championship.

“In theory, they should be in front of Max. They didn’t qualify, then there was no red flag or Safety Car to help them. They had to fi💝ght 🌟which wasn’t easy.

“McLaren is in a good wa𝔍y but Max will fight until the end to hang onto the wor⛄ld championship.”

Steiner insisted that Red Bull’s best hope is to establish themselves as quicker than Mercedes and Ferrari📖.

“Yes. Th𝓀en, they can take advantage if the McLaren makes a mistake or something goes wrong,” he said.

“They have to rely on McLaren getting it wrong, more than them getting it rig💮ht.🎶”

McLaren lead Red B𓃲ull in the constructors’ by 41 points and are heavily favou⛄red to win that championship now.

Intriguingly Verstappen still has a 🤡52-point lead over Norris in the drivers’.