Mark Webber concedes Red Bull haven’t been able to get everything right in the past few races, which in turn has meant they’ve failed to beat McLaren and Ferrari on occasion.
In the previous five races, McLaren have won three, Ferrari one and Red Bull one. Webber says the Milton Keynes based outfit understands why they’ve been second or third best of late, and those improvements will be worked on over the summer break.
“It looks from the outside as if McLaren and Ferrari have caught us up a bit,” he wrote in his BBC column. “But actually there have been hardly any dominant victories, all the races have been pretty tight this year. Even when Seb had his phenomenal run of victories at the start of the year, the McLarens and Ferraris were never far away.
“The margins are very, very tight these days and on race days you need to get everything right to win – that’s something we haven’t been able to do of late,” he admitted.
Whilst improvements will be made, Webber pointed out that the next two tracks don’t favour the RB7 compared to its rivals, both of which enjoy a greater straightline speed.
“Of course, we are aware of the areas we have to work on, and we certainly wouldn’t pick Spa and Monza, the next races, as our best two tracks to fight back on.
“But Red Bull have always been there at every race. We’ve had good reliability, and we’re not going to lose that consistency and form overnight. We’re not going to be rolling over easily as a team, that’s for sure,” he added.
The Australian also revealed that he flew to Austria to speak with team owner Dietrich Mateschitz to discuss his future at the team and he came away with positive thoughts.
“What I will probably do during the break is to sit down with the team and talk about the future,” he said.
“I flew out to Austria before the Hungary weekend to see Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz and we had a good chat about several things, past, present and future.
“So he knows where I’m coming from, and I’ll have to talk to the team about those discussions, which we haven’t yet done.
“We’ll do that in the next few weeks, I’m sure, and work out how we can go forward if that’s the case.”
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