Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner says Sergio Perez needs to "stop thinking about the championship and just drive"

Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner says Sergio Perez needs to “stop thinking about the championship and just drive” to turn around his form. 
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal, Canada, Qualifying
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix,…

Perez was just six points behind168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Max Verstappen following his victory in April’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix but three races later he finds ღhimself 53 points adrift following a difficul♛t pair of races. 

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A crash in qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix left him at the back of the grid and he went on to finish outside of the points. Perez then suffered a Q2 elimination in Barce✨lona the following weekend but was able to recover to fourth.

However, with tꦕeammate Verstappen winning both races, the Mexican has seen his hopes of a title challenge dramatically f🧜ade. 

“He had a great start🔥 to the season, he’s had a couple of rougher races and he just needs to find that mojo again,” Horner told Sky ahead of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix. 

“I think actually he needs to stop thinking about the championship and just drive, because we know what he’s capable📖 of -ꦑ we’ve seen it earlier in the year.

“And just take the pressure off himself. If he ♛just frees his shoulders up a bit, it’ll just come to him more naturally.”

Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal, Canada,
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand…

Going into the weekend, Perez had already rejected a suggestion by Horner that he would be feeling less pressure after🎉 his recent disappointments. 

Perez was a lowly 17th and nearly three seconds slower than Verstappen in a wet final practice in Montreal as he struggled to generate tyre temperatures.&nb𝄹sp;

Asked what Red Bull can do to help him going into qualifying, Horner answered: “I think just give him the data. He’ll be looking at that now with𓃲 his engineer in the build up to quali. 

“He never got the tyres into t൲he right temperature window in that second part of t🌊he session. At the beginning of the session he was running fine.

“So the time I’m not worrꦏied about. I think that will naturally converge. We know that Checo is pretty decent in the wet. 

“What Max seems to be exceptional at, a bit like Fernando, is just generating tyre temp really quickly with an aggressive style and suddenly the ca𝓡r just comes into a window where it works.

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