Brundle questions Red Bull setback: 'It all seems too strange'

Brundle calls Red Bull's loss of form 'too strange'

"Red Bull had started Verstappen and Sergio Perez on hard compound tyres on a counter strategy after their relatively lowly grid positions of seventh and eighth. With the front runners racing the wheels and tyres off each other this looked smart, especially in the absence of a safety car," Brundle said in his column for Sky Sports.

Verstappen's first pit stop then failed completely. "But some scruffy pit stops on laps 22 and 23 respectively, and thereafter relatively poor pace and opting for a two-stop strategy would consign Red Bull to sixth and eighth places," the former F1 driver continued.

"Max would call the car a 'monster' post race and it all seems too strange," Brundle stated. "They dominated the early season, and last year in Monza Max won his 10th straight race at a canter. This year he finished 38 seconds behind the winner." Red Bull's poor form did not go unnoticed by Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff either.

This article has been created in collaboration with Matt Gretton