Sergio Perez stated his Belgian Grand Prix was “actually dangerous” after falling from second on the grid to eighth on the end.
Crimson Bull staff principal Christian Horner stated “you by no means wish to go backwards” and reiterated his considerations over Perez’s poor points-scoring, which has prompted hypothesis over his future on the staff in current weeks.
“It was a extremely dangerous race for us,” Perez instructed the official F1 channel. “It began nicely on the primary stint, however then the second stint was actually sophisticated with going onto the medium compound. That actually damage quite a bit after I needed to push, the degradation was simply fairly excessive.
“We needed to do fairly a brief stint, sadly, and that compromised, I feel, the race time. However in the end we didn’t have the tempo in the present day.”
Perez’s staff mate Max Verstappen, who was relegated to eleventh on the grid after exceeding his most variety of energy unit parts, gained six locations from begin to end, the identical quantity Perez misplaced.
Horner had combined emotions concerning the efficiency of his two drivers after the race.
“I believed Max drove a very good race from eleventh to fifth, ending forward of his nearest championship rival so extending his lead there,” he stated. “For Checo, clearly second to eighth, however with the quickest lap. We have to have a very good take a look at that.”
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Perez’s poor outcome got here off the again of a powerful restoration drive on the earlier race in Hungary and his greatest qualifying outcome for 10 rounds this weekend.
“We have to undergo all of it and have a very good look, however clearly, we didn’t wish to go from second to eighth, as I’m certain, Lando didn’t wish to go from fourth to sixth,” stated Horner. “You by no means wish to go backwards.”
Amid rumours Crimson Bull will maintain a gathering throughout the summer season break to contemplate a possible alternative for Perez, Horner insisted: “At the moment received’t impression something.
“With Checo, clearly we want each vehicles scoring. We are able to see McLaren have taken, I feel, one other seven or eight factors out of us in the present day within the constructors’ and we have to cease that. We’ve obtained to bounce again after the summer season break.
“So we want Checo up there. Yesterday he was nice in qualifying – sadly in the present day hasn’t fairly labored out.”
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