De Vries’ starring drive to ninth-place on his F1 debut feels like a million miles away on the back ofꦍ a shambolic race weekend𒁃 in Baku.

He was the cause of the early Safety Car following a clumsy clout of the wall at Tur๊n 5 before▨ ending up in the wall at the following corner.

It capped off a poor weekend for de Vries, who had pushed teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda i𓃲n the wall on the ope𝐆ning lap of Saturday’s sprint.

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While de Vries’ performance in the opening round of Bahrain can be exꩵcused, given AlphaTauri’s lack of outright pace, the Italian’s team recent upgrades have clearly worked, allowing Tsunoda to score points in the last two races.

While that doesn’t tell the whole story given Tsunoda has been arguably F1’s surprise package - positively-speaking - this season - the AlphaTauri car is certainly not the slowest onꦦ the field.

De Vries did show a hint of pace in first practice in Baku, setting the sixth-fastestꦜ time of the session.

But his good wℱork was so🔯on undone by a shunt in qualifying. 

Put that alongside an incident with Tsunoda, then a race-ending incident🌜 on Sunday, it was a poor weekend o𒈔verall.

“[It was] fully my mistake, my responsibility, silly and unnecessary and that ꦓis all I can say about it,” de Vries sai✨d of his crash in Sunday’s race.

“All I can do now is move on and look at the next... thankfully there is another race next weekend and we will have to look ahe🌺ad to what's coming.

“It is kind of an awkward corner becau꧒se the wall comes towards you and I was just a bit too close. It is a mistake, fully on me, nobody else to blame and I made it.”

De Vries has not lived up to expectations with many🅠 tipping the 28-year-old to be the team’s leader given Tsunoda’s fiery nature and 🃏less experience.

Given the ruthlessness of the Red Bu🍌ll driver programme, he’s fully aware that he’ll have to turn it around quickly.

“There is p🌳ositivity to take away from certai𒊎n moments and I think we have shown, since Jeddah, speed at given moments but for a lot of reasons and circumstances, we haven't really been able to turn it into a concrete result,” he added.

“That is very tough to swallow, h🐻ard, but the only way to moveཧ forward is to continue to look ahead and just follow the process.

“I personally believe things will turn around.”

De Vries wasn’t Red Bull’s first choice as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pierre Gasly’s replacement for F1 2023 - IndyCar star Colton Herta was.

The Dutchman was ultimately the default ღchoice given the lack of alternatives available on the market, plus Red Bull’s plethora of junior talent haven’t quite lived up to expectations in Formula 2.

No doubt de Vries was impressive in his one-off drive for Williams, combined with his respectable 🌳CV of winning the F2 and Formula E titles - he has ped﷽igree and at some point, deserved an opportunity in F1.

However, de Vries isn’t one of Red Bull’s own nor is he a young prospect that has a significant scope in tဣhe future to improve to a point he could race for the senior team.

It’s reminiscent of Brendon Hartley’s stint with Toro🦩 Rosso in 2018.

An incredibly talented sp꧙ortscar driver, Hartley was drafted into Red Bull’s junior team as they had run out of opౠtions in a similar scenario to what had happened with de Vries.

Admittedly, de Vries deserves time - we are ✨only four races in the season after all - but his opening four races have been incredibly disappointing.

Liam Lawson’s impressive start to life in Japan𒉰ese single-seater series Super Formula would have caught🍎 the eye of Helmut Marko.

Lawson finished third in last year’s F2 championship, one place ahead of Williams driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant, who has performed above expectations so far alo🅺ngside Alex Albon.

If de Vries continues to struggle, w🍸hile🍬 Lawson excels, Helmut Marko will surely consider a change even as early as the summer break.