Christian Horner explains ‘root cause’ of Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez Red Bull F1 team orders row
A heated disagreement erupted within Red Bull at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix when 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:V🥀erstappen refused to gi🍌ve up sixth place to teammate Perez to help the Mexican in his quest to beat Ferrari’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc to runner-up spot in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2022 F1 drivers’ championship.
Red Bull had asked Perez to let Verstappen through following a late 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Safety Car period on the proviso that he would return the position if he was unable to catch and pass 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso in the final laps.
Asked why he had disobeyed the instruction after the chequered flag, Verstappen responded over te🌌am radio: “I told you already last summer, don’t ask that again✃ to me… I gave my reasons, and I stand by it.”
Dutch media reported 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:ꩲVerstappen’s actions were payback for Perez costing him the chance ✱to 💎win the Monaco Grand Prix earlier in the season.
Perez crashed on his final lap of qualifying, causing a red flag which prevented Verstappen from improving and potentially taking a cru♏cial pole position. Perez w🍷ent on to win the race.
Perez denied he had crashed deliberately and told reporters in the immediate aftermath of the Interlagos race that Verstappen had 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:shown “who he really is”.
Horner insists both Verstappe🐬n and Perez have put the incident behind them after Red Bull held clear-the-air talks following the race.
“I think the root cause of the problem was we had never envisaged being in a situation, being in the final few laps🦄, being in sixth and seventh place in that Grand Prix," said Horner.
"And I think it was something that, as we hadn't envisaged it, we hadn't discuss🔴ed it before the race, and 𓆏I think that was a mistake on our part, that we should have thought through or tried to think through every single scenario.
"And so, I think that was a mistak𝔉e as a team that we didn't discuss it and come up with a very clear plan. Obviously, it was unfortunate what happened, but it was quickly discussed, openly and tr⭕ansparently.
“And both drivers were very cle🦹ar, open, and honest with each other, and from that as a team we move on and the dynamic between the drivers is absolutely fine.”
Along with their breach of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 cost cap, the incident overshadowed the end to a fantastic season for Red Bull, as the team claimed 17 wins on their way to their first constructors’ world title since 2013, while Verstappen stormed to a second successive drivers’ cᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚrown.
But Horner insists the team will learn from ♕the row and move on.
“I think we m♔ade some mistakes in Brazil, we've learned from that and, as I say, we move on,” he added.
“We’ve done some amazing things. These two drivers have performed incredibly ⛦well together. 🌌They’re the reason that we are in the position that we are.
“Max’s season [was] on another planet [last] year. So, we're not going to let the events of a couple of laps in Bra🔥zil dictate the ye🌳ar for us."
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