Red Bull Racing has secured only two victories so far in the 2025 Formula 1 World Championship, and Ralf Schumacher has not held back in his criticism of the team’s performance.
With the summer break now underway, it is a natural time for assessments—an opportunity to evaluate who has handled the first half of the season in the best possible way, and who has failed to meet expectations. Former Formula 1 driver Ralf Schumacher shared his view on the latter question, making it clear that, in his opinion, Red Bull Racing has been the most disappointing team in this opening phase of the year.
The German ex-driver chose not to focus on Scuderia Ferrari, another team that had generated significant pre-season optimism among fans during the winter months. Instead, Schumacher directed his attention towards the Austrian outfit, which after two years of near-total dominance began to show signs of decline during the second half of the 2024 season. The exceptional results the team achieved in the opening stages of last year allowed Max Verstappen to clinch his fourth consecutive Drivers’ Championship title with several races to spare. However, the trajectory this year has been very different.
After fourteen rounds of the 2025 calendar, Red Bull Racing has managed to win just two races, both claimed by Max Verstappen. Currently, the Dutch driver occupies third place in the championship standings with 187 points, holding only a 15-point advantage over Mercedes driver George Russell. The team’s second car has endured an even more challenging campaign: first driven by Liam Lawson and later by Yuki Tsunoda, it has accumulated a total of just ten points, all scored by the Japanese driver.
Ralf Schumacher remarked that when looking at the current results, it was hard to avoid the conclusion that Red Bull has been the biggest disappointment from a team perspective this season, even if such an opinion might not be popular among some fans. He noted that while the Milton Keynes-based squad started the campaign reasonably well, they have since become far less competitive in the fight at the front. Schumacher went as far as to say that the team’s lowest point came at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest. He added that he could not recall the last time Max Verstappen had been so far off the pace—excluding his early days with Toro Rosso—highlighting just how stark the drop in performance has been.
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