Horner: Checo Pérez desperately needs a good result
The team boss described the Mexican driver’s season from Monaco as “horrible”
The head of Red BullChristian Horner, asked the Mexican for one last great performance for the 2024 season Czech Perezwho is experiencing his worst moment with the Austrian team and this Saturday will start from sixteenth position in the Sprint race of the Qatar Grand Prixpenultimate date of the championship.
Horner pointed out that Czech Perez He has had a “terrible” season since the Monaco Grand Prix and the man from Guadalajara himself has accepted that he has not felt comfortable in the RB20.
“Czech Perez he desperately needs a good result. “I mean he’s had a horrible season since Monaco, so he desperately needs to get a big result here or next weekend,” he told Viaplay.
The British manager spoke about the poor classification of Czech Perezwhere he was eliminated in SQ1 after finishing sixteenth place, and noted that they will analyze the data, since Sergio pointed out that his lap was ruined by Charles Leclerc.
“I’m not sure what was going on with Charles. Unfortunately, Czech He hasn’t managed to get enough out of the car to overcome (SQ1 and move on to) SQ2. So it’s frustrating to lose him in SQ1. So we will take a look at the data and see what we can change after the sprint race tomorrow,” said Horner about the performance of Czech.
In interview for AM850, Czech Perezdetailed the incident he experienced with Charles Leclerc during the last lap in which he sought to advance to SQ2.
“Opening up the space on the last lap, Charles arrived and we fought in turns one and two and I lost crucial tenths that left me out of qualifying. Unfortunate, because we had much more to do, because we improved the car a lot from practice one to now,” he declared.
From the Dutch Grand Prix to date, Czech Perez It has barely added 21 units, with Zandvoort being where it obtained the most units, with eight. Pérez only added two points during the Great Circus’s tour of America with the Grand Prix of Austin, Mexico City and Las Vegas.
Qatar GP schedules
The Sprint race will be held this Saturday at 8:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. ET), while race qualifying will be at 12:00 p.m. (1:00 p.m. ET). The Qatar Grand Prix race will be on Sunday at 10:00 a.m. (11:00ET).
