Max Verstappen says Mercedes’ dominant performance during the opening two rounds of the 2020 F1 World Championsh𒊎ip means it’s unlikely to have a ‘bogey’ venue that will all෴ow Red Bull to claim an advantage.

This weekend’s Hungarian Grand Pri🎶x at the Hungaroring represents the highest downforce venue of the revised 2020 season and is perceived as an opportunity for the traditi🍸onal handling-focused Red Bull to take the fight to Mercedes in a straight fight.

However, while the twisty venue hasn’t always been Mercedes strongest🅘 circuit, Verstappen believes the W11’s se😼aring form in Austria suggests it isn’t going to have any weak circuits this year.

“Every weekend is an op🐈portunity but we always have to be realistic. When you are that dominant, like Mercedes, I think they will be quick on every track.

“I always give it my very best but you have to be realistic, it will be hard to beat them, le♈t’s see how close we’re going to be, maybe the weather is always going to play a part, it can create chaos, we’ll find out, but on pure pac👍e I think it will be very hard to beat them.

Reflecting on where he believes the Mercedes gains over the Red Bull, Verstappen admits there is still a variance in straight line speed, while stability is a visible is💜sue for the unpredictable RB16 an issue.

However, the Dutchman feels the Red Bull drives well in low-speed corners, which could allow🍃 him to at least get on terms with Lewis Hamilton and Vaꦦltteri Bottas.

“Clearly they gained a lot on s🌄traights and there there’s not a lot of corners to get back, so it’s a handicap at that track. Low 🌊speed we are very competitive so that’s a positive.

“Just a few high speed corners where they are just very strong and also when you look at their onboards the car is ver🐻y stable and predictable, mine as I said already the second week was more predictable, but it seems that they have another step on top of that and they can really throw the car in and the car just looks hooked.

“We’ll try to work towards something like that. Als🌊o it has a lot of impact on tyre life when you have a very stable car, it’s not only over one lap but only on a race to look after the tyres.”