Christian Horner gives emphatic response after Red Bull 'crisis summit'

Christian Horner has emphatically denied claims that Red Bull held a "crisis summit" in the aftermath of its disastrous Bahrain Grand Prix. 

Max Verstappen could only finish sixth with Yuki Tsunoda ninth in Sakhir as both struggled throughout the weekend with balance and brake issues as Red Bull was the fourth-fastest team behind McLaren, Mercedes, and Ferrari. 

Helmut Marko was "very alarmed" at the performance, with the motorsport advisor gathering with team principal Horner, technical director Pierre Waché, and chief engineer Paul Monaghan in the aftermath to discuss solutions to the problems plaguing the RB21. 

However, speaking in Jeddah, where the team has brought the first step of a raft of upgrades it hopes will put the car back into regular race-winning contention, Horner emphatically denied suggestions of a "crisis summit."

"It was not a crisis summit," Horner told Sky Sports F1.

 "I mean, if you sit down with your engineers and discuss the race, I wouldn't describe that as a crisis meeting. 

"The crisis summit was described as the meeting after the race in Bahrain, so you always sit down and discuss these things, and there are engineering solutions to engineering issues.

"There is not a crisis. We are not where we want to be, and we've got some issues with the car that we're working through, and the whole team is working incredibly hard.

"We understand what the issues are, it is introducing a series of upgrades over the coming races to try and address some of those shortcomings."