Head of Red Bull’s driver development program, Dr Helmut Marko, has described the opening weekends of the 2015 season as disastrous and claims the restrictive power unit rules may make it impossible to close in on Mercedes.
Speaking to f1.com, Dr Marko said “We are significantly behind Mercedes. They clearly dominate.”
Both in Australia and Malaysia, Red Bull’s finishing cars have been lapped by the leaders.
“…because the rules are not open it means that you are only allowed to make changes on a very limited scale which makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to catch up [to Mercedes].”
The FIA confirmed in March that Renault had reserved 12 out of 32 engine tokens to develop their power unit this year.
“This situation will last until the rules are changed again. And then when you have such a disastrous weekend as Melbourne things are said fast – and the Malaysian weekend didn’t ease the situation much.”
After two races, Red Bull lie 6th in the Constructor Championship with 11 points.
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