Christian Horner has rejected the notion that his Red Bull F1 team are currently in “crisis”.

Following a woeful Bahrain Grand Prix in which 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen finished a distant sixth, Red Bull’ไs key management reportedly held crisis talks in the F1 paddock.

Red Bull team principal Horner, advisor Helmut Marko, technical directorꦚ Pierre Wache and chief engineer Paul Monaghan were all spotted deep in conversation in the team’s hospital unit after last🍌 Sunday’s race.

But Horner has moved to downplay the meeting after it was branded as a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:‘crisis summit’.

"It was not a crisis🥂 su✨mmit,” Horner told Sky Sports F1.

“If you sit down with your engineers and discuss 🧸the race, I wouldn't describe that as a crisis summit.

"We have lots of meetings. I think the crisis summit was described as the meeting after the raceꦯ in 𓆉Bahrain. You sit down and discuss these things logically. There's always engineering solutions to engineering issues.

"We are not where we want to be. We have got some issues with ▨the car that we are working through and the whole team is working incredibly hard.

"We understand꧅ what the issues are♊, it's introducing a series of upgrades over the coming races to address some of those shortcomings.”

Red Bull wind tunnel not helping

Horner blamed Red Bull’s current struggles with their RB21 on wind tunnel data discrepancies which are not correlating with what the꧒ team are seeing in the real world environment on track.

“We’v💞e got some vices in our car, which with the margins beౠing so close, if Max is not confident in the car on turning in and having that instability issue, that’s worth tenths or hundredths of a second, which in such a tight grid is multiple places,” he explained.

“W𓃲e know when we can tidy 🐽that up, the performance will come.”

Horner admitted that Red Bull’s current wind tunnel, which 𒉰he described as being a “relic of the cold war”, has not helped the situation.

"When you get to the finer elements of a set of regulations like th🥂is, the wind tunnel we have is a relic of the cold war, so has its li♋mitations,” he added.

"We have invested in a nꦑew tunꦿnel which is in the process of being constructed.

"It doesn't help but we have some very bright engineers, analysists and mechanical designers that I'm sure we wil♛l figure ไit out.”

Despite Red Bull’s current troubles, Verstappen is only eight points behind early championship leader168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris.