Red Bull were forced to settle for a minor haul of points from the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen finished in 9th position, while teammate Yuki Tsunoda finished 17th as the Milton Keynes-based team had a race to forget.

Despite picking up just two points, Verstappen remains third in the Driver’s Championship as F1 prepares for their summer break. With 14 races of 24 completed, he sits third in the standings on 187 points, though he is 88 points behind second placed Lando Norris and 97 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri. He is also 15 ahead of fourth place George Russell.

The result continues a streak without a podium for Verstappen, with the Dutchman having last finished in the top 3 of an F1 race at the Canadian Grand Prix in June.

Teammate Tsunoda has now failed to score points in his last 7 races, with the second Red Bull driver having not scored points since the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix at Imola in May.

Red Bull remain in 4th place in the Constructor’s Championship. The Milton Keynes-based team are currently 42 points behind 3rd place Mercedes and 124 ahead of Williams in 5th.

The race in Budapest was Verstappen’s 200th in a Red Bull car, but having only qualified 8th, Verstappen admitted that the Hungarian Grand Prix track didn’t suit their car, with the reigning World Champion having work to do to get forward.

Meanwhile, Red Bull made a late decision to withdrawn Tsunoda from the grid and start from the pit lane after making set-up changes.

A slow start saw Verstappen initially passed by former teammate Liam Lawson, but some decent moves allowed the Dutchman to pass Lawson and Lance Stroll, only for his advance to become negated when he got stuck behind Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto.

With most pre-race expectations saying the race would be a two-stop, Verstappen went early to make his first stop by pitting on lap 18. This however put Verstappen into traffic, with the Dutchman required to pass multiple cars.

One of those was his one-time championship rival Lewis Hamilton, which lead to a flashpoint on lap 30 when Hamilton went off track in a sequence that saw Verstappen get past. This was later investigated by the stewards, who would rule 2 hours after the race that no further action was needed after arranging a meeting where they could speak with Verstappen in person.

Verstappen had briefly risen to 5th, but duly ran out of tyres, making a second stop late on. He returned from that in 9th, and after a slide in turn one, he ultimately ran out of time to pass Lawson ahead.

Tsunoda had made some early progress from his pit-lane start, but the Japanese driver’s gamble to take soft tyres at his first stop ultimately failed to pay dividends. Tsunoda also picked up front wing damage in a collision with the Sauber of Nico Hulkenberg, and he ended up crossing the line 17th.

F1 will now take a three week break, returning with the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday August 31st.