Despite reclaiming the lead of the drivers’ championship last time out at Istanbul Park, Mercedes🔯 enjoyed a significant advantage over Red Bull as Valtteri Bottas won the race by over 14 seconds🗹.

Since introducing a significant🌜 upgrade at the British Grand Prix, Mercedes has ofte꧂n been the team to beat in terms of pure speed.

Speaking ahead of this weekend in Austin, Verstappen says he’s just focusing on improving Red Bull’s𒐪 own performance.

“I'm not concerned because there's nothing we can do about it,” Verstappen said. “We just have to focus on our side, there are a few things we can do bet🌸ter.

“We learned a lot also in Turkey. We'll try to do better with our package, what we have, and try ไto find a bit more performance.”

The Dutchman admitte꧒d that Mercedes has taken a significant leap forward.

“Yeah, of course, he added. “They did. But like I said, we can't really do an🎶ything about that, so we have to focus on ourselves.”

Verstappen has never won at COTA, while Red Bull hasnဣ’t since 2013.

He doesn’t believe the lack of performance in Turkey will necessarily cᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚarry over to Austin due to the difference in track layout and surfacꦚe.

“It was all right but we know that we still have a bit of work to do, and we want to be faster,💎 but the team result was good in Turkey, overall performance wasn’t amazing in Turkey,” Verstappen explained. “But we’ll try again here and see how quick we are.”

“Different track, different tarmac,ꦑ so… I did spend a bit of time on the simulator as well, everything felt all right, but yes, we’ll find out tomorrow.”