A late reliability failure forced reigning world champion Max Verstappen to retire shortly after h꧋e lost second place to Carlos Sainz, before teammate Sergio Perez also suffered a suspected engine issue at the first corner of the final lap. 

Red Bull team principal Horner said his team had not yet diagnosed the exact cause of the failur🦩es but suspects the problem originated in the fuel system. It is thought the same issue 🐟affected both RB18 cars. 

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“I can’t remember the last time that happened 𓃲to us but obviously it’s your worst nightmare,” Horner said.

"It looks suspiciously like the failures are related to each other,” he added. “It looks like potentially an issue w🦩ithin the fue🐬l system. So it’s very disappointing to lose 30 points.”

Horner said 🌼the issue had come “totally out of the blue” without any warning. 

“I suspect it’s something similar between both b൩ecause the symptoms looked very similar.” 

However, Horner insisted the problem is not related to the suspected MGU-K issue🌞 that caused Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri to stop on track in the closin𝔉g stages.

Verstappen also battled a power s💫teering issue in the closing laps of the race that hampered his performance, prompting a furious outburst over team radio. 

Ho🦄rner explained the problem occurred during Verstappen’s final p🌞it stop. 

“We bent a track rod when the car got dropped at the final pit stop and 🥀that made th൲e car inconsistent from left to right,” he said. 

“So he did a great job with that and looked like he was managing. It wasn’t a safety concern, it was just uncomfꦏortable to drive.” 

While Verstappen was left understandably disappointed to see 18 points vanish so close to the end, the defending world champion remains upbeat about Red Bull’s prospects for thi🐲s season given how competitive the RB18 🅷was in Bahrain. 

“The stee✱ring issue, it was not easy to drive as I had no feeling of what the car was doing because it was not natural,” Verstappen said. 

“You can lose power steering or whatever, and it’s just heavy. But thi🅠s was like it was almost stuck in some places, so really difficult to drive. 

“Of course the big problem was what happened afte🍸rwards, it looked like there was no fuel coming to the engine and basically everything just turned off so I rolled back into the pit lane. 

“It’s not what you want espꦓecially after positive test days and a positive weekend and it looked like until the issues we had, we would be in second place. 

“That would’ve been still a good resu🥃lt, 18 points and Checo fourth, but to retire with bothꦫ cars at the end of the race is very disappointing. 

"The pace is there, we fought for pole, we fought for the race win. That’s not the problem, we just need to understand the issues we had today and work on the car continu🉐ously to improve.”