F1 Austrian Grand Prix: Christian Horner and Sergio Perez blame George Russell for clash that retired Red Bull car
A collision on the opening lap between 🦄Perez and Russell sent the Red Bull driver spiralling into the gravel - he later retired due ☂to the damage.
Ferrari’s Charl♔es Leclerc won the race, ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappꦕen and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton.
But, at their 🧔home race at the Red Bull Ring, team principle Horner was lef🎃t ruing that only one of his driver finished the race.
“Losing Checo was hugely disappointing,” he told 🔥🌺Sky.
“I don’t think Me✤rcedes like our ca🐭rs going around the outside at Turn 4.
“It was a shame because Checo was clearly ahead.
“It is a tricky corner and we see so many incidents on the outsid🍃e.
“It is a shame he wasn’t given more space.”
Max Verstappen said: "My teammate got taken out."
Perez said to Sky: “It is a big shame for us. I cle⛦arly felt, from our side, that we did everything we possibly could to avoid ꦇthe incident.
“It was up to George to conꦿtrol his car. He couldn’t control it, clearly.
“We ended up making contact when I was💝 clearly ahead.🙈”
Horner said about his decision to ꧋retire Perez: “There was so much damage. There was no chance to score points so it was better to save the mileage.”
Russell finished in P4 behind teammate Hamilton.
💧Russell said to Sky: “It was very frustrating to have the first-lap incident.
“I brakeཧd hard, I braked late. Checo had the clean li🎃ne.
“As soon as we started to turn in, I knew we would mak🎀e contact.
“✱I was already on tꦗhe limit of my car - braking as hard as I could, turning as hard as I could.
“He just had more grip on the racing line.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports 🐷for a decade covering everything 🤡from American sports, to football, to F1.
