De Vries’ starring drive to ninth-place on his F1 debut feels like a million miles away on the bac🀅k of a shambolic race weekend in Baku.

He was the cause of the early Safety Car following a clumsy clout of th𓃲e wall at Turn 5 before ending up in the wall at the following corner.

It capped off a poor weekend for de Vries, who had pushed teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda in the w🧔all on the opening lap of Sat🐭urday’s sprint.

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While de Vries’ performance in the opening round of Bahrain can be excused, given AlphaTauri’s lack of outright pace, the Italian’s team rec💎ent upgrades have clearly worked, allowing Tsunoda to score points in the last two races.

While that doesn’t tell the whole story given Tsunoda has been arguably F1’s sur🎃prise package - positively-speaಞking - this season - the AlphaTauri car is certainly not the slowest on the field.

De Vries did show a hint of pace inꦑ fꦛirst practice in Baku, setting the sixth-fastest time of the session.

But his good work was soon undone by a shunt in qualif𓃲꧂ying. 

Put that alongside an incident with Tsunoda, then 𓄧a race-ending incident on Sunday, it was a poor weekend overall.

“[It was] fully my mistake, my responsibility, silly and unnecessary and that is all I can say about it,” de Vries s🅘aid of his cras♉h in Sunday’s race.

“All I can do now is move on and look at the next... thankfully there is anothꦿer race next weekend and we will have to 🤡look ahead to what's coming.

“It is kind of an awkward corner because the wall comes towards you and I was just a bit to🔯o close. It is a mistake, fully on me, nobody elඣse to blame and I made it.”

De Vries has not lived up to expectations with many tipping the 28-year-old toౠ be the team’s leader given Tsunoda’s fiery nature and less experience.

Given the ruthlessness of the Red Bull driver programme, he’s fully aware that 🌠he’ll have to turn it around quickly.

“There is positivity to take🅰 away from certain moments and I think we have shown, since Jeddah, speed at given moments but for a lot of reasons and circumstance👍s, we haven't really been able to turn it into a concrete result,” he added.

“That is very tough to swallow, hard, but the only way to move for♛ward is to continue to look ahead and ju♕st follow the process.

“I personally believe things will turn around.”

De Vries wasn’t Red Bull’s first choice as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly’s replacement for F1 2023 - IndyCar star Colton Herta was.

The Dutchman was ultimatel🎶y the default choice given the lack of alternatives available on the market, pওlus Red Bull’s plethora of junior talent haven’t quite lived up to expectations in Formula 2.

No doubt de Vries was impressive in his one-off drive for Williams, combined with his respectable CV of winning the F2 and Formula E titles - he has pedigree and at some point, deserved an opportu🔯nity in F1.

However, de Vries isn’t one of Red Bull’s own nor is he a y🐠oung prospect that has a significant scope in ꦦthe future to improve to a point he could race for the senior team.

It’s reminiscent of Brendꦍon Hartley’s sti🐷nt with Toro Rosso in 2018.

An incredibly talented sportscar driver, Hartleꦉy was drafted into Red Bull’s junior team as they had run out o💛f options in a similar scenario to what had happened with de Vries.

Admittedly, de Vries deserves time - w🍃e are only four races in the season after all - but his opening 🐭four races have been incredibly disappointing.

Liam Lawson’s impressive꧂ start to life in Japanese single-seater series Super Formula would havﷺe caught the eye of Helmut Marko.

Lawson finished third in last year’s F2 championship, one place ahead of Williams driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant, who has performed above expectations so fa🐷r alongside Alex Albon.

If de Vries continues to struggle, while Lawson excels, Helmut Marko will surely consider a change ev🐓en as early as the sum🐻mer break.