Christian Horner insists “lessons” will e💜merge from the battle between Liam Lಌawson and Sergio Perez.

RB driver Lawson got into a squabb🍷le at the F1 Mexico City Grand Prix with Red Bull’s Perez, whose place he could take🔜 next year.

Lawson damage🍌d Perez’s sidepod on Lap 19 - then shot him a middle-finger gesture which he later aℱpologised for.

Perꩵez angrily reacted that Lawson did not have the “right attitude” for Formula 1, pointing to his row with Fernando Alonso a week prior.

The Lawson v Perez battle was a rare occasion whereไ Red Bull fought on-track with their sister team.

“First of all I think it demonstrates that the two teꦦams do race each other,” Red Bull boss Horner reacted.

“And whilst having the same ownership are independent in the way that they go racing. 
“Liam has apologised, I think, to Checo for the incident. 
“Obviously they’ll be 🀅lessons that come out of that, but frustrating certainly for🐽 Checo’s race to pick up the damage and lose valuable points today.

“I haven’t spokeไn with Liam yet, I’ve spoken to Checo and I understand the two drivers have spoken together.”

The clash with Lawson cont❀ributed to another awfu𝓰l weekend for Perez, this time at his home grand prix.

He finishꦇed 17th and was hit with a time penalty for incorrectly positioning his car on the grid.

“I think he just positioned the car outside of the bꦉox, he just made a mistake and positioned the car too far forward,” Horner said.

“Checo again has had a horrible weekend. Nothing has gone right for hi🔜m th🅷is weekend.

“He knows Formula 1 is a resultsꦗ based business and inevitably when you are not🏅 delivering, the spotlight is firmly on you.”

Horner was unable to give 🐼guarantees that Perez would stay driving the Red Bull, despite his contract for next year a✱nd despite the team’s show of faith in him earlier this season.

Other worri𒅌es for Horner will be that Red Bull lost second-place in the constructors’ champions🦹hip to Ferrari.

McLaren and Ferrari have much better race pace than Red Bull in Mexico, Horn🦋er admitted.

“That's the biggest thing that we need to take away from today is, more so on the hard tyre we just didn't have the same paceꦍ,” he said.

“Max just had no grip. We didn't feel like we could 🤡switch the tyres o🦹n.

“So that's the biggest challenge in the next four days, is to understand what caused that? 
“And obviously Brazil is a very different challenge to this circuit, but it's a pattern that particularly at the end of the stints, you see th💟e McLaren is very, very strong, particularly at the end of grands prix.”