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Horner wants to put pressure on Williams and Ferrari

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Christian Horner says Red Bull hopes to put pressure on Williams and Ferrari in the upcoming races.

Red Bull has been hampered by a number of reliability issues during the early part of the season and has been unable to match the pace of the leading three teams, with Daniel Ricciardo recording a best result of sixth place. However, Horner says the start of the European season has seen the team regroup and it has set itself the target of overhauling Williams and closing the gap to Ferrari.

"Our target is to keep improving the car," Horner said. "After a difficult start last year we bounced back from pre-season testing to the first race and we want to try and make a big step forward in the next few races to put Williams and maybe even Ferrari under a bit of pressure.

"The team has been used to winning over the last few years and it's tough when you're not running at the front where that's where you're used to being. But the great thing here is that everyone is using it as a motivation to get back there. Everyone has got their head down, everybody's working incredibly hard and we can see progress in many areas."

And Horner says he has faith in Renault having seen a positive reaction to the disappointing start to the season.

"I think in this two week period to re-group and Renault to have done plenty of running on their dynos and iron out some of the issues they've had, has been very timely and hopefully we can use that to great effect in Barcelona next week."

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