Red Bull team principal Christian Horner reckons Pierre Gasly needs a mental “Ctrl+Alt+Del” reset in order to༺ recover from his difficult start to the 2019 Formula 1 season.

Max Verstappen scored Red Bull’s first win of the season at last weekend’s A𓃲ustrian Grand Prix and moved up to third in the drivers’ championship, with Gasly only able to manage seventh on his way to being lapped bꦗy the Dutchman.

The Fre♔nchman has endured a tough campaign since his graduation from Toro Rosso and is yet to finish higher than fifth, leading to suggestions hౠe could be replaced by Toro Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat or Alexander Albon.

But Horner re-affirmed Red Bull’s supp🐽ort for Gasly, adding the driver just needs one strong weekend to turn things around.

“Pierre is having a tough time at the moment, we’re doing our best to support him, I think he just nee📖ds a reset,” Horner sai♒d.

“I t🎶hink we have got to somehow go ‘Ctrl+Alt+Del’ in his head and start again. He is a quick driver.

“The problem he has got is that Max is delivering e൲very week, and that puts more pressure on him to perform, but we’re sticking by him.

“We still believ𒐪e in him and we’ll give him all the support we can to try and nurture the talent we know he has.

“Th𝕴ere is no intention to change Pierre. He🌼’s our driver, we’re going to work with him, we will try to get the best out of him.

“He’s having a tough time at the moment 🌺but we will do our best to support him through it.”

Gasly conceded he struggled with a number of issues throughout the race, including getting s🎉tuck i𒉰n traffic, which had a “snowball effect” on his progress.

“I struဣggled with the traffic at the beginning and spent quite a lot of time there, and it kinda was a snowball effect with the time we spent behind,” Gasly explained.

“The hotter everything gets and I just struggled with that, struggled to get past Kimi [Raikkonen] and the cars around, and after the pitstop I pushed too hard and destroyed th♈e front tyres after the first few laps.

“And after that, just struggled with blistering. It wasn’t the best management on my side,🦩 so it makes the afternoon quite tough.

“I think we’ve showed some more speed. 💖Unfortunate that it was in free practice and you want to be fast on the Saturday and S🗹unday afternoon.

“But overall I think from FP1, FP2, also Q1 and Q2 there are improvements bu🍒t for sure they are not as big as we want for sure.

“But there are a few things and we’ll ke🧸ep pushing to get the results we should get and I’ll keep working to get the perfoཧrmance right.”