Red Bull’s rivals feel recovery hampered by F1 cost cap

As Red Bull bids to continue its lock out of race victories in Hungary this weekend, its closest competitors still admit they are behind the Milton Keynes-based squad.

While major upgrades introduced by both Mercedes and Ferrari have produced encouraging steps forward, the scale of the car changes they want to introduce have been limited on budget grounds.

Both teams are of the view that if spending was unlimited then they would have worked on…