Christian Horner says Sergio Perez is conscious that he’s underneath stress because of an absence of latest outcomes after failing to attain once more within the British Grand Prix.
Perez failed to flee Q1 on Saturday after spinning off observe at Copse in damp circumstances, leaving him nineteenth on the grid. Crimson Bull opted to take an influence unit penalty to restrict the injury and begin from the pit lane, however a big gamble to take intermediate tires early on backfired and he finally completed seventeenth, ramping up the stress after a run of 15 factors in six races, and with reserve Liam Lawson set to drive the RB20 throughout a filming day at Silverstone this week.
“The Liam check, aero run, has been deliberate for a few months now,” Horner stated. “Checo, in fact he’s underneath stress. That’s regular in Components 1. And while you’re underdelivering, that stress solely mounts. He’s conscious of that, he is aware of that.
“This weekend, nothing has actually gone his approach. We took a big gamble within the race. He began on the exhausting tire, he was making first rate progress early on within the race. The rain began to reach, he was P15 or 16 on the time, you roll the cube a bit of at that time as [Ferrari] did with [Charles] Leclerc.
“He went onto the inter. If the rain had picked up, he’d have appeared a hero. It didn’t. So that you don’t. After which he had an additional cease and the time lack of being on an inter on a drying observe was hemorrhaging plenty of time for him. So clearly so much to have a look at from over the weekend.”
Perez has completed no larger than seventh within the final six races, retiring from three of them, and his return of 15 factors in that spell compares to 119 for Max Verstappen, and Horner admits it’s a run that can’t be allowed to proceed.
“He is aware of it’s unsustainable to not be scoring factors,” stated Horner. “Now we have to be scoring factors in that automotive, and he is aware of that. He is aware of his function and his goal. No one is extra keen than Checo to get again and discover his kind once more.
“In fact there’s frustration when each of your automobiles aren’t performing collectively. It was irritating to lose Checo in Q1. He had missed P1 due to Isack Hadjar driving, he’d had a good P2, we felt that he ought to have been across the high six, and to lose that automotive in Q1 was very irritating. That’s the place we’re at.”
Horner suggests he might want to take a unique method to managing Perez after giving him a brand new contract just lately that was designed to supply certainty about his future.
“Each driver’s totally different. Some drivers want an arm across the shoulder, some want a kick up the arse, and generally it varies from week-to-week.
“(McLaren) took seven factors out of us and it’s one thing that we’re conscious about. To win a constructors’ championship you want each automobiles scoring.”
