Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes Max Verstappen's bad luck in the opening half of the season will only serve to energise the teenager for the second half of the year.
Verstappen has scored just 67 points to teammate Daniel Ricciardo's 117 this year and has retired from five of the opening 11 rounds of the season. Three of the retirements were directly linked to reliability issues -- brakes in Bahrain, battery in Canada, engine in Azerbaijan -- while first lap collisions outside of his control in Spain and Austria accounted for the other two.
Horner puts the run of poor results down to bad luck and believes Verstappen will be stronger in the second half of the year.