Nearly defying logic, Christian Horner claims that the 53 level deficit to his teammate will ease the strain on Sergio Perez.
Forward of the back-to-back races in Monaco and Spain, the strain was clearly on Purple Bull because it appeared to have a real battle between its drivers on its fingers.
Wins for Max Verstappen in Bahrain, Australia and Miami, and victories for Sergio Perez in Jeddah and Baku, left the pair simply 14 factors adrift of the double-header, placing Christian Horner and Helmut Marko underneath intense scrutiny as they insisted that their drivers could be free to race each other.
Nevertheless, the double header noticed Sergio’s problem disintegrate, the Mexican having fun with a depressing weekend in Monaco after crashing out in qualifying, whereas a mistake in qualifying every week later left him on the again foot heading into the Barcelona race.
Nonetheless, with a straight face, Horner claims the 53 level deficit will ease the strain on the Mexican.
“I feel when you have a look at the factors now there is a huge break up between the 2 of them,” mentioned the Briton following yesterday’s race.
“If something, that ought to take the strain off him,” he added. “He has nothing to lose now and simply must loosen up. He can breathe out and simply drive like we all know he is able to, like he did in Azerbaijan and among the early races this 12 months.
“Being Max Verstappen’s team-mate, there’s not a driver on the market that who would’ve crushed Max in that automotive right this moment,” mentioned the Briton. “He is up in opposition to a driver that is on the highest of his kind.
“That is very powerful,” he admitted. “Checo, mentally, it is a actually powerful factor to cope with. However now there may be that separation within the factors and which will take the strain off him a bit and the expectation that he is placing on himself. He must let go of that and be free to drive.”
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