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

He was the cause of the early Safety Car following a clumsy clout of the wal𝓰l at Turn 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5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda in th𒆙e wall on the opening lap of Saturday’s sprint.

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

While that doesn’t tell the whole story given Tsunoda has been arguably ꦚF1’s surprise package - positively-speaking - this season - the AlphaTauri car is certainly not the slowest on the field.

De Vries did show a hint of pace in first practic🧸e in Baku, setting the sixth-fastest timꦚe of the session.

But his good work was soon undone by a shunt in qualif�♌�ying. 

Put that alongside an incident with🔜 Tsunoda, then a race-ending incident on Sunday, it was a poor weekend ove🎶rall.

“[It was] fully my mistake, my responsibility, silly and un♋necessary and tꦦhat is all I can say about it,” de Vries said of his crash in Sunday’s race.

“All I can do now is move on and look at the next... thankfully there is anothe🐷r race next weekend and we will have to look ahead to ꦰwhat's coming.

“It is kind of an awkward corner because the wall comes towards you💯 and I was just a bit too close. It is a mista🌄ke, 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 ruthless𓃲ness of the Red Bull driver programme✅, he’s fully aware that he’ll have to turn it around quickly.

“There is positivity to take away from certain 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 b🌺een able to turn it into a concrete result,” he added.

“That is very tough to swallow, hard, but the only way to m✅ove 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5最新开奖结果:Pierre Gasly’s replacement for F1 2023 - IndyCar star Colton Herta was.

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

No doubt de Vries was impressive in his one-off drive for Williams, combined with his r𝐆espectable CV of winning the F2 and Formula E titles - he has pedigree 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 the future to improve to a point he coulꦰd race for the senior team.

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

An incredibly talented sportscar driver, Hartley was drafted into 🐲Red Bull’s junior team as they had run out 𒅌of options 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 disap🌼pointing.

Liam Lawson’s impressive start to life in Japanese single-seater series Super Formula would have caugh🎐t the eye of Helmut Marko.

Lawson finished third in last year’s F2 championship, one place ahead of Williams driver 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Logan Sargeant, who haꦯs performed above ex൩pectations so far alongside Alex Albon.

If de Vries continues to struggle, while Lawson excels, Helmut Marko 🌼will surely consider a change even as early as the summer break.