Mekies: Red Bull has had a car capable of winning for two or three races in a row

After Max Verstappen won the Singapore Sprint, Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies said the team's car had been capable of winning for the past two or three races.

Mekies described Red Bull’s progress as gradual, crediting work on both the chassis and power unit. He praised the staff in Milton Keynes for working closely to get more from the car and said no single factor had made the difference.

George Russell took the lead in turn one. At the end of lap one, he ran onto the kerbs at the final-corner exit, lost control and was out of the race. Isack Hadjar’s power unit failed again early in the Sprint. Mekies said losing Hadjar’s car so early would make the rest of the Singapore weekend more complicated; he regretted that Red Bull had not been able to give Hadjar a chance to compete.