Crimson Bull group principal Christian Horner has insisted his group has accomplished all it may to assist a struggling Sergio Perez after a nightmare dwelling weekend in Mexico.
Perez was eradicated in Q1, copped a time penalty for parking ahead of his grid spot after which went on to lose additional floor after he and RB’s combative Liam Lawson collided in Flip 5, leading to flooring injury.
After conceding to having a “horrible” season, Perez’s calamitous weekend has put additional stress on the 34-year-old to step up, and stress on Crimson Bull to rethink its choices for 2025 after sliding to 3rd place within the constructors’ standings.
When pressed on the Mexican’s future, Horner stated: “Checo, once more, has had a horrible weekend. Nothing has gone proper for him this weekend.
“He is aware of Components 1 is a results-based enterprise and inevitably, once you’re not delivering, the highlight is firmly on you.
“There may be at all times going to be scrutiny on that. As a group, we have to have each vehicles scoring factors and that’s the nature of Components 1.”
Requested if that scrutiny utilized to 2025 or if Crimson Bull might make a change earlier than that, Horner confirmed Perez could be within the automobile in Brazil however did not supply a lot reassurance past the upcoming Sao Paulo weekend.
Sergio Perez, Crimson Bull Racing
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“From the group’s perspective, we’re working with him as onerous as we are able to to attempt to assist him,” he added. “We’ve accomplished the whole lot that we are able to to assist Checo and can proceed to take action in Brazil subsequent weekend.
“However there comes a time limit you can solely accomplish that a lot. There comes a time limit that troublesome selections should be made.
“We’re now third within the constructors’ championship. Our dedication is to attempt to get again right into a successful place but it surely’s going to be a tall order over these subsequent 4 races.”
Perez was livid with Lawson’s aggressive driving model, blaming the New Zealander – who’s within the working for Perez’s seat – for ruining his probability to attain factors as his flooring injury resulted in a giant downforce loss.
However Horner did not seem to aspect totally with both driver. “That is racing. We noticed a number of powerful racing on the market,” he instructed Sky Sports activities F1.
In his print media session, Horner – drawing consideration to current insinuations that Crimson Bull and RB work collectively as an entity – then added: “I feel it demonstrates you can see the 2 groups do race one another and, whereas having the identical possession, are impartial in the way in which that they go racing.
“Liam has apologised to Checo for the incident and clearly, there shall be classes that come out of that. Nevertheless it’s irritating, actually for Checo’s race, to select up the injury and lose helpful factors.”
