Red Bull's Christian Horner expects Mercedes to be in the hunt in the French GP on the back of a strong showing in recent F1 races.
scored his third consecutive podium in the Austrian Grand Prix on a circuit that was deemed to favour Mercedes less than Silverstone.followed Hamilton home in fourth for the second time in three races, after being eliminated during a start crash in Britain.
Both Hamilton and Russell were set for a strong qualifying result in Austria as well, until they both crashed in Q3.missing between two and three tenths of a second in “pure performance”Red Bull chief Horner acknowledged that Mercedes will continue to be a threat at next week's French Grand Prix as it appears to have gotten on top of its bouncing issues.
"We'll expect them to be quick in [Paul] Ricard," Horner said."They're showing flashes of being there or thereabouts. "The last two races have been pretty decent for them and there's been no sign I think of any porpoising at all, so they seem to be slowly bringing themselves back into the game."
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