Eddie Jordan tells Max Verstappen the ‘demand’ he must make to Red Bull to win fourth F1 title

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Max Verstappen is on the cusp of taking his fourth Formula 1 World Championship, but there are a few hurdles for Red Bull to overcome.

The Dutchman built up a lead at the start of the season and was consistent throughout the year despite Red Bull’s troubles, which helped him keep the points gap to Lando Norris at a healthy 52 points.

The last few races have posed a challenge for Red Bull after encountering balance problems with the RB20, with Verstappen yet to win a race since the Spanish GP in June.

Red Bull has blamed a lot of their car development issues on the correlation between the wind tunnel and the track, with Helmut Marko singling out their post-WW2 wind tunnel.

When discussing Verstappen’s chances of winning a fourth title, Eddie Jordan has told the Dutchman what he needs to ‘demand’ from Red Bull when speaking on the Formula for Success podcast.

What Max Verstappen must ‘demand’ from Red Bull

It is rare to see Verstappen and Red Bull struggle after they effectively dominated the championship last season, but something must drastically change to keep his title hopes alive. Jordan thinks Verstappen must demand answers from his Red Bull team to prevent it from happening again in the future.

“There’s only going to be two people who will do any development on the car that they’ve got. One, I think Max needs that development. He needs to find where that little area of expertise has gone to,” said Jordan.

“It can’t have disappeared. I would request a boardroom full of 10, 15 engineer guys, and we start at the beginning. [Max says] ‘Okay, guys, spread it out. What has changed? Show me the design, show me the content, not because I’m the engineer, but I personally need to see.’

“I’ve been around too long and I realize that, slight tiny little errors lead into another. I do believe that that car is still unbelievably quick at Red Bull.”

Peter Windsor unconvinced by Red Bull’s complaints about ‘correlation’ issues

Red Bull engineers have singled out correlation problems between their wind tunnel and the track, although Peter Windsor believes the root cause lies with Adrian Newey’s departure.

Newey announced he would be leaving Red Bull to join Aston Martin at the end of the season at the Miami GP, which was when Verstappen’s troubles started.

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Sergio Perez has noted that Newey had a lot of influence on race weekends and would be a key part missing going forward for the team.

Verstappen must now rely on an upgrade planned for Austin that should make it better, although Christian Horner has cautioned that it could still not deliver the performance gains it needs.