Max Verstappen has demanded Red Bull make changes to its F1 car, describing the RB20 machine as "undriveable" after the Italian Grand Prix.
Red Bull suffered a poor weekend at Monza, with Verstappen only seventh on the grid, climbing to sixth by the flag as Red Bull's woes with its previously-dominant car continue.
In better news, the nearest championship-challenger Lando Norris was only able to take eight points from his lead after starting on pole and finishing third with fastest lap as Charles Leclerc won for Ferrari.
Reflecting on the sub-par weekend, Verstappen demanded changes from Red Bull to improve its machine heading to back-to-back street tracks in Azerbaijan and Singapore.
"It is up to the team to come up with a lot of changes to the car because we basically went from a very dominant car to an undriveable car in the space of six to eight months," he told media including RacingNews365.
"That is very weird for me so we need to turn the car upside down - but it doesn't matter with how we are at the moment, we are bad everywhere and need a lot of changes.
"We have to go from our own fortunes and today and this whole weekend have been very bad, we were weak on a lot of fronts."
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Verstappen had his championship lead trimmed by Lando Norris to 62 points as he took sixth place, but hinted that an engine problem and Red Bull strategy slightly hindered his progress.
"It was pretty boring, we were too slow and the slow pit-stop already cost me a bit, and I couldn't run on full power for most of the race with the engine because we had a little issue," he said.
"Strategy wise, we could have done a better job, at least to be a little bit more competitive and in the fight, but it wouldn't have changed the position.
"We just didn't do our optimal race starting on the hard tyre."
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