Pink Bull staff principal Christian Horner performed down, however didn’t rule out, the potential of Liam Lawson changing Sergio Perez on the staff this yr.
Perez failed to attain for the fifth time this season in Mexico. Pink Bull had been main the constructors’ championship 5 races in the past however fell to 3rd final weekend.
Pink Bull dropped Daniel Ricciardo from their second staff RB two rounds in the past, changing him with Lawson, who impressed throughout a five-race spell as an alternative to the staff final yr. Lawson scored factors on his return in Austin.
Perez endured a conspicuously poor weekend in his dwelling race. He did not progress past Q1 and was penalised for a false begin earlier than damaging his automotive in an incident with Lawson.
However with simply 4 races left this season, Horner indicated he doesn’t envisage changing Perez with Lawson. “I feel it’s extremely, extremely unlikely,” he advised Viaplay. “We’ll sit down and look and try to perceive what occurred on this race.”
Nevertheless he admitted Perez had a poor race in entrance of his dwelling crowd. “He picked up various injury and his race was shot at that time,” stated Horner. “He picked up a penalty for the beginning. So undoubtedly a race to neglect.”
Perez laid the blame for his poor race at Lawson’s ft. “It was very unlucky as a result of we had been making quite a lot of progress,” he stated. “We had been undoubtedly getting in the appropriate route.
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“We had been as much as P10 already, though with the penalty we had at first. It was wanting like good factors for the day to minimise the injury however then sadly we got here along with Lawson and we picked up an enormous injury.”
Whereas Perez blamed Lawson for his or her collision, the stewards solely investigated the Pink Bull driver for the incident. They cleared him, however Perez believed Lawson ought to have been penalised.
“To me it’s easy,” stated Perez. “He was off the monitor. I used to be on the within into flip 4 and the one route he had was to chop the nook and go straight, simply principally like if there was nobody there. That meant that we broken the each of our races.”
The stewards dominated Perez made a late transfer which compelled Lawson off the monitor. “It’s not his fault, he’s arising and he’s simply driving with out management,” Perez continued. “He did the identical to Fernando final weekend, he’s accomplished it to me, he’s accomplished it to Franco on the finish of the race and there’s no penalty. So it actually relies upon who you might be right here and to see what kind of penalties you get.”
Perez stated he gained’t “waste my time” making an attempt to speak to Lawson about their conflict: “He doesn’t perceive something.”
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