Red Bull Faces Performance Crisis at Japanese Grand Prix

0:00It's March 27th. From the locker room to your ears, this is F-1 News today, powered by AI, Ankori with the story. Red Bull's Formula 1 team is facing a tough start to the Japanese Grand Prix weekend. In Friday's practice sessions at Suzuka, Max Verstappen finished 10th in Isaac Hadjar 15th, both more than 1.3 seconds behind the leaders. The RB-22 cars suffer for major balance problems that kept the drivers well off the pace. Out of tweaks between the two sessions only made things worse. Flipping understeer into oversteer and leaving the car unsettled. Team principal LaRotte Mekis admitted the squad lacks a lot of performance right now. Drivers have been vocal about not having a car they can push hard, and Mekis agrees it's a real setback. He pointed out the issues show up clearly in comments from the cockpit. The problems run deeper than just balance, especially in high-speed corners like Suzuka's famous S's section, Mekis believes there are fundamental car aspects they haven't fully

1:00unlocked yet. The team is digging into fixes over the next few hours and days, hoping to recover some ground for Saturday's qualifying. It might take weeks to get back to fighting at the front.