Despite reclaiming the lead of the drivers’ championship last time out at Istanbul Park, Mercedes enjoyed a significant advantage over Red Bull as Valtteri Bot♏tas won the race by over 1꧃4 seconds.

Since introducಌing a significant upgrade at the British🐠 Grand Prix, Mercedes has often been the team to beat in terms of pure speed.

Speaking ahead of this weekend in Austin, Verstappen says he’s💝 just focusing on impr𝕴oving Red Bull’s own performance.

“I'm not concerned because there's nothing we can do abou🌱t it,” Verstappen said. “We just have to focus on our 𓆏side, there are a few things we can do better.

“We learned a lot also in Turkey. We'll try to d🦂o better with our package, what we have, and try to find a bit more performance.”

The Dutchman admitted that Mercedes 𒀰has 🙈taken a significant leap forward.

“Yeah, of course🐼, he added. “They did. But like 🐠I said, we can't really do anything about that, so we have to focus on ourselves.”

Verstappen has never won at♏ COTA, while Red ꩲBull hasn’t since 2013.

He doesn’t believe the lack of performance in Turkey will necessarily carry over to 🀅Austin due to the difference in track layout and surface.

“It was all right but we know that we still have a bit of work to do, and we want to be faster, but the team result was good in Turkey, overall performance wasn’t amazing in Turkey,” Verstapp♓en explained. “But we’ll try again here and see how quick we are.”

“Different track, different tarmac, so… I did spend a 🧸bit of time on the simulator as well, everything felt all right, but yes, we’ll find o🔴ut tomorrow.”