Red Bull recovering from Monza low point: Horner

Formula One champions Red Bull hope to pick up the pace over the last six rounds of the season after Max Verstappen emerged stronger than expected from back-to-back street races in Azerbaijan and Singapore, team boss Christian Horner said.

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The three-time world champion, who will be 27 on Sept 30, had his advantage over McLaren's Lando Norris cut from 62 points after the Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sept 1 to a current 52.

The season now has a four-week lull before a United States-Mexico-Brazil sequence starting in Austin, Texas on Oct 20, followed by another final triple-header of Las Vegas-Qatar-Abu Dhabi.

“I think we've got a vein of development and I think we've understood some of the issues with the car. I think we're starting to address them,” Horner said after Verstappen finished a distant second to Norris in Singapore.

“We were better in Baku and (even) better in Singapore.”