Verstappen future not affected by Lambiase move - Mekies

Red Bull have had a difficult start to the season and Verstappen, who missed out on last year's title to McLaren's Lando Norris by two points, is ninth in the championship after three races with a best result of sixth. Red Bull are introducing a major upgrade to their car for Miami, when the season restarts after a break enforced by the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix. This was tested by Verstappen at Silverstone last Wednesday and Mekies said it would address "a fair chunk" of their shortcomings "One thing is sure, we haven't solved everything," Mekies said. "But there is no doubt that progress has been made into giving something more consistent to our drivers. "How does that make you fit in the classifications? It's impossible to know. But in terms of us alone on the track, in terms of giving a more consistent product to our drivers, I'm confident we have made some progress. Do we know if we cracked everything? No, we know we didn't crack everything yet." Stella - whose world champions have had a more successful start to the season, including a second-place finish for Oscar Piastri at the last race in Japan - said: "There was always the idea to deliver sort of a completely new car, especially from an aerodynamic upgrades point of view for the North American races. "I would like to stress that this is what I would expect of most of our competitors so not necessarily is going to be a shift in the pecking order. …