Red Bull are running away with both world championships this season after enjoying an unbeaten start to 2023, having won all 12 races so far heading into F1’s summer break. 

Although the likes of Mercedes’168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc have been able to claim pole positions, the RB19 has been unmatched in terms of race pace, underlined by some of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s huge winning margins this campaign. 

And Ferrari boss Vasseur believes the F1 cost cap,ﷺ which is set at $135m for each team this year, has only made the deficit for the chasing pack more difficult to bridge. 

“Red Bull is also bringing upgrades and upg🍬rad🍌es and upgrades,” Vasseur said. 

“And I think that everybody is improving but the reality of the regulations an♋d the cost gap is that we are improving much less than in the past. 

“It means that when there is a gap, and a real♎ gap, it’s quite difficult to catch up. 

“One weekend to the others over the last four or five weekends it was a one time [Ferrari] ahead in quali, one time McLar꧅en, one time Mercedes.

“But we are always behind Red Bull and at least in the race they hꦜave still a huge gap.”

Vasseur - who previously criticised the “very light” penalty handed out to Red Bull for their F1 cost cap breach in 2021 - stressed Ferrari are focusing on themselves, rat♉her than looking at their rivals, in the search for improvements. 

“To catch up, it’s🥀 not that you ꦛare thinking about the Red Bull and to say well ‘what [do] we have to do?’” Vasseur said. 

“You have to work on yourself. It means that we are developing, we are developinꦕg in eve🐈ry single direction, we are trying to improve aero, suspension and whatever we can do. 

“We are pushing like hell to do a better job but if you have a look, and 𒉰this is crucial, with the bouncing anඣd so, it’s not when you are bringing upgrades that you are doing a huge step forward."