Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has described 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez’s perfওormance at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix as “impeccable”.

After qualifying fifth, Perez recovered to finish second to hand Red Bull their first 1-2 finish since the Italian Grand Prix in Sep🎀tember.

It was a strong drive from Perez, who got past 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz at the start before overtaking 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell.

While Perez did finish over 20 seconds behind teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, finishing behind the Dutchman should be the main objective if he wants to remain at R𓄧ed Bull in 2025.

As quoted by Total Motors💞port, Marko said after the race: “It wouldn’t have made any sense to push the pace. He had Sainz under coꦅntrol and there was no chance of moving forward.

“Perez therefore did abso🍰lutely the right thing tactically and never pushed. To put it another way, he  could have driven faster, but there was no re༺ason to. It was an impeccable performance.”

Perez was embroiled in 🔴a close fight with the two Ferraris 💞and Russell in the early phase of the race.

The Mexican felt the earlier use of DRS - with it no꧟w available to d🥃rivers after just one lap - had an impact on the racing.

“Yeah, I think starting from P5, it's aꦐlways nice to make good progress,” he explained. “There were a lot of battles on track, which around this place, you just go into a very different strategy once that happens. You are sliding a lot more in traffic.

“And I think overall, it's a very good team result. Yeah, it was quite close with the Ferraris, with the Mercs early on. We were fighting with the DRS, obviously, being a lap earlier. It just changes a few things ou𓄧t there.”