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’s key management reportedly held crisis talks in the F1 p𝔍addock.

Red Bull team principal Horner, advisor Helmut Marko, technical director Pierre Wache and chief engineer Paul Monaghan were all spotted deep in conversation in the team’s hospital uniﷺt 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 cri🗹sis summit,” Horner🃏 told Sky Sports F1.

“If you ꦺsit down with your en🥀gineers 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 race in Bahrain. You sit down and💯 discuss these things logically. There's always enginᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeering solutions to engineering issues.

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

"We underst🦋and 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 o💫n wind tunnel data discrepancies which are not correlating with what the team are seeing in the real world environment o𒅌n track.

“We’ve got some vices in our car, which with the margins being 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 suꦍch a🤪 tight grid is multiple places,” he explained.

“We know wh💙en we can tidy that up, the performance will come.”

🐓Horner admitted that R🐠ed Bull’s current wind tunnel, which he 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 this, the wind tunnel we have is♕ a relic of the cold war, so has its limitati🐎ons,” he added.

"We have inves🍌ted in a new tunnel which is in the process of being constructed.

"It doesn't help but we h🐟ave some very bright engineers, a💃nalysists and mechanical designers that I'm sure we will figure it 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.