2023-05-10 00:04:23
Christian Horner, Red Bull Racing’s F1 team representative, has refuted Sergio Perez’s opinion that the medium tire was “weak” at the F1 Miami GP. Pole-sitter Perez opted for a medium-hard one stop, while title rival Max Verstappen opted for a hard-medium countermeasure. Verstappen was able to make a late attack with fresher rubber.
Verstappen passed Perez on lap 48, just three laps following his pit stop, to take his third win of the season and extend his lead to 14 points as F1 prepares to return to Europe. Perez said he wasn’t sure he might have beaten Verstappen with the same strategy and ruled out a hard-course start. But Red Bull Racing F1 team principal Horner believes “in hindsight” Perez might have pushed more in his medium stint to widen the gap to a recovering Verstappen. Perez’s claims regarding tires “No, when you start from pole position, starting hard is more like a gamble on whether the safety car will do the trick,” Perez explained to Deere. “The whole grid had a medium start, so I don’t think anyone realized how weak the tires were. After a few laps, I realized they were pretty bad tires.” The medium tire turned out to be very fragile, so I had to protect it quite a bit to get to around lap 15. “And it was really hard to lean on that tire. Basically the whole right side. “It was really difficult.” “I might see Max coming up on the hard and from that point on, I knew the race was going to be difficult.” We mightn’t open up the gap.He simply got too close to us.”Horner’s contradiction”For the first 10 laps, he managed the pace very well.And he was nervous on the right front. I think it was and I started seeing other teams coming out with a little bit of graining,” Horner commented. “I think he was doing well with himself and the car to protect the right front and following the first 10 laps he started pushing and started building the lead.” If I looked at the race once more, I would have pushed more in the first stint, and the medium tire proved to be a very good one as Fernando[Alonso]went quite a long way before pitting on lap 25. Because I understand.” Horner also revealed that he gave the sign for Verstappen’s reverse approach. “The strategy was of course discussed, all the numbers were worked out overnight and we weighed the pros and cons,” he said. “Max and his engineering team said they wanted to do it today. , I happily signed off and said, ‘If that’s what you want to do, no problem.'”
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