A brand new Crimson Bull chassis did not assist Sergio Perez flip his fortunes round as he might solely qualify in thirteenth place for the dash race in Brazil.
The under-fire Crimson Bull driver continues to wrestle for kind after a poor efficiency within the US GP in Austin adopted by his stunning residence race in Mexico final weekend, the place he completed seventeenth.
The stress on Perez is ramping up, and once more questions have resurfaced as as to if he might be retained by Crimson Bull subsequent season, regardless of having a contract in place.
Perez was quizzed about his newest poor end result and reeled off a listing of excuses.
He stated: “We had a superb FP1 after which we had a bit of little bit of understeer with the monitor [temperature] coming down.
“We tried to [deal with] it with the brake stability and the instruments which might be out there after which I ended up a bit of bit too rear-limited.
“After which was a bit complicated on the programme. We thought we’d have an opportunity for a second lap, and sadly, we did not.
“At present we did wrestle fairly a bit and looking out ahead to tomorrow’s qualifying, actually. We bought caught out with the situations, sadly. And that actually was the troublesome bit.”
Crimson Bull boss Christian Horner had earlier revealed the group had reverted to an outdated chassis to assist increase Perez’s confidence.
Sergio Perez, Crimson Bull Racing RB20
Photograph by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Photos
Horner once more pledged his help for his driver however stopped in need of offering a ringing endorsement.
He stated: “We’re doing our greatest to try to assist rebuild his confidence. He had a horrible weekend in Mexico.
“We have modified his chassis this weekend. It is an older chassis, that we have put him into simply to provide him that further increase of confidence.
“Sergio is a seasoned campaigner. He is been round lengthy sufficient that he is aware of it is a results-based enterprise.
“He is aware of that this season has been under-par for him. No one’s extra conscious about that than Sergio, however we’re doing our greatest that we are able to to help him.”
In the meantime, team-mate Max Verstappen will line up on the second row after qualifying in fourth place for the dash.
The world champion additionally criticised the bumpy monitor for not serving to his trigger.
He stated: “As quickly as we went into qualifying, it seemed like we have been undoubtedly off the tempo.
“The automobile was a bit troublesome on the bumps. They did the resurfacing however they really made it worse to drive. It is extraordinarily bumpy in all places, in order that’s not good for our automobiles.
“All of the bumpy areas, the automobile is leaping round quite a bit, and it is costing me fairly a little bit of lap time.
“Usually whenever you’re already fairly a bit off over one lap, I do not assume we’re significantly sturdy within the race. So we’ll should see how that goes tomorrow within the dash.
“I additionally know there’s possibly some climate round that may come, however possibly not for the dash.”
