By Chris Medland - Jul 23, 2019, 3:36 PM ET

Silverstone performance gives Red Bull confidence for Germany

Red Bull is in confident mood heading to the German Grand Prix as a result of its performance level at Silverstone, according to team principal Christian Horner.

“I think we’ve definitely unlocked some potential from the car," he said. "The car has behaved very well at Silverstone in high-speed and low-speed, we’ve looked competitive, and for Max to be as close to the pole time as much as he was... without the hesitations maybe would have got even closer – and then in the race we didn’t see his true pace because he [was] stuck behind a Ferrari for 99 percent of it.”

Verstappen agrees that the performance at Silverstone was encouraging for Red Bull, even though his race was hampered by the Vettel collision.

“At least we were competitive,” Verstappen said. “There are no added expectations (for Germany), we need to keep working hard to close the gap to Mercedes. The power unit and car can still be improved, but it's all looking a lot better now.”

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Chris Medland

While studying Sports Journalism at the University of Central Lancashire, Chris managed to talk his way into working at the British Grand Prix in 2008 and was retained for three years before joining ESPN F1 as Assistant Editor. After three further years at ESPN, a spell as F1 Editor at Crash Media Group was followed by the major task of launching F1i.com’s English-language website and running it as Editor. Present at every race since the start of 2014, he has continued building his freelance portfolio, working with international titles. As well as writing for RACER, his broadcast work includes television appearances on F1 TV and as a presenter and reporter on North America's live radio coverage on SiriusXM.

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