Helmut Marko has commented on the ongoing struggl💯es at rivals Merc🔯edes.

The Red Bull advisor has described his own surp🅷rise to see the once-dominant Mercedes fail to deliver a winꦗning car for the third season in a row.

The W15 currently languishes behind Red Bull,♔ Ferrari and McLaren.

Marko was asked by : ꧅“As an outsider you get the feeling that Mercedes are stillꦺ getting worse. Shouldn't all alarm bells be ringing?”

He replied: “They probably do anyway.

“What irritates me 🐼ജso much is that the car is really fast at times, and at times it runs at absolute peak times.

“Then I think: ‘Look, now they get it!’

“But that's always just a flash in the pan.”

𓆉Mercedes’ highs and lows were summed up last weekend in China.

Lewis Hamilton emerged from Friday’s qualiꦚfying for th♕e sprint race insisting that the W15 “came alive” after his brilliant session in wet conditions.

Hamilton 🎶then claimed an encouraging P2 in the sprint race behind Max Verstappen.

But h𝓰e made an error in qualifying for the grand pr𒐪ix, and explained “massive changes” in set-up from his earlier sessions.

Hamilton battled from 18th on 🐽the starting grid to P9 in a Chinese G𓆏rand Prix to forget.

“It doesn’t happen overnight that you slump li🌃ke this,” Marko said.

“Wh👍at is alarming is that they have not💃 been competitive for the third season now.”

The tipping point was the 𒐪2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, w😼hen Hamilton lost out on a record eighth title and Verstappen won his first for Red Bull.

Red Bull and V🃏erstappen have dominated since, and the champion is on course for ♛a fourth title in a row this year.

Hamilton, meanwhile, is battling through his final y🌸ear at Mercedes before going to Ferrari🥀.