Red Bull Racing could face a dramatic de💜cli♍ne in Formula 1 akin to Benetton’s post-Michael Schumacher slump if Max Verstappen walks away from the team, warns Sky Sports F1 pundit Karun Chandhok.

While the Red Bull RB21 has not been a match to the dominant McLaren MCL39 this year, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Verstappen has been able to extract maximum performance out of a car that is both unpredictable andꩵ difficult to drive to win two races in the opening nine rounds of the season.

Verstappen’s performances have been in stark contrast to his teammates, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson dropped after just two race weekends and his replacement 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda also hitting a pl🌸ateau af🅠ter early showing promise.

Nothing shows Red Bull’s reliance on Verstappen than the constructors' 🤡championship, with the Dutchman having scored 1🐬37 out of its 144 points so far.

While speculation over Verstappen's future at Red Bull has cooled in recent months, with both parties reiterating their commitment, former F1 driver Chandhok is nevertheless concerned about a fundamental issu♌e plaguing the Milton K🐠eynes-based outfit.

Chandhok drew comparisons with forꦫmer grand prix team Benetton, which became a shadow of itself 🐲when then-two-time world champion Schumacher left to join Ferrari in 1996.

"This is the seventh year we are having the same conversations. Seven years," Chaꦰndhok ⭕told Sky TV.

"That's an awfully long time sinceඣ Red Bull haven't found a second driver competitive enough to rack up the results and points that they need, since Daniel Ricciardo left at the end of 2018.

"All of these drivers that have come thꦰrough, the Pierre Gas𓃲lys and the Alex Albons, they are all racking up results in other cars, aren't they? 

"There's s꧑omething fundamentally that is not right in the way that car is designed or works for other drivers. It's s🅺o bespoke for Max. It's reminiscent of the Michael Schumacher-Benetton days.

"Schumacher🧜 left [after 1995] and the team won one race in the next seven years, having won two World Championships in a row and that's the risk [for Red Bull♔].

"If Max leaves, that whole operation will need to rethink the way they desi🐷gn their cars for other p🌠eople.”

He added: "Yuki isn't a pancake. This [with the 2nd Red Bull driver] has been going on for a long time,🍸" he said.

"Maybe that's a sign. Of what? Tha🌌t you canꦚ decide yourself."

Tsunoda did impress Red Bull by quickly adapting to the RB21 in his first race weekend in Japan, ha🐓ving previously spent four seasons plying his trade at its sister squad Racing Bulls (previously AlphaTauri).

He finished inside the points in Bahrain, Miami and Imola, but has since struggled with lacklustre results, finishing 17th and 13th in Monaco and Barcelo༒na respectively.

2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg has sympathy for Tsunoda, saying the 25-year-old is capable of better perf🔥ormances than the results suggest.

"I make that Max Verstappen is a team-mate killer, with🦩out exaggerating. It's just horrible t🐷o be a team-mate next to that guy," Rosberg told Sky.

"No one gets closer than six tenths, which in F1, is like a different category. ♒Poor Yuki, who's a fantastic driver, is in that right 🐠now, and really struggling. It's just so tough. He's doing laps that feel good and yet he's miles away. That's such a tough situation to be in.

"I struggle to understand why [the team can't engine💝er the car to Ts🌳unoda's liking].

“Everything just points to Max Verstappen being so special. And that's thꦅe only thing you can say about that, because all these guys are great drivers. It looks 🀅like he's just on another level to everyone else."