Christian Horner insists “classes” will emerge from the battle between Liam Lawson and Sergio Perez.
RB driver Lawson acquired right into a squabble on the F1 Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix with Pink Bull’s Perez, whose place he might take subsequent yr.
Lawson broken Perez’s sidepod on Lap 19 – then shot him a middle-finger gesture which he later apologised for.
Perez angrily reacted that Lawson didn’t have the “proper angle” for Method 1, pointing to his row with Fernando Alonso every week prior.
The Lawson v Perez battle was a uncommon event the place Pink Bull fought on-track with their sister group.
“Initially I believe it demonstrates that the 2 groups do race one another,” Pink Bull boss Horner reacted.
“And while having the identical possession are impartial in the best way that they go racing.
“Liam has apologised, I believe, to Checo for the incident.
“Clearly they’ll be classes that come out of that, however irritating definitely for Checo’s race to choose up the injury and lose helpful factors right now.
“I haven’t spoken with Liam but, I’ve spoken to Checo and I perceive the 2 drivers have spoken collectively.”
The conflict with Lawson contributed to a different terrible weekend for Perez, this time at his house grand prix.
He completed seventeenth and was hit with a time penalty for incorrectly positioning his automobile on the grid.
“I believe he simply positioned the automobile exterior of the field, he simply made a mistake and positioned the automobile too far ahead,” Horner mentioned.
“Checo once more has had a horrible weekend. Nothing has gone proper for him this weekend.
“He is aware of Method 1 is a outcomes primarily based enterprise and inevitably if you find yourself not delivering, the highlight is firmly on you.”
Horner was unable to provide ensures that Perez would keep driving the Pink Bull, regardless of his contract for subsequent yr and regardless of the group’s present of religion in him earlier this season.
Different worries for Horner shall be that Pink Bull misplaced second-place within the constructors’ championship to Ferrari.
McLaren and Ferrari have a lot better race tempo than Pink Bull in Mexico, Horner admitted.
“That is the largest factor that we have to take away from right now is, extra so on the laborious tyre we simply did not have the identical tempo,” he mentioned.
“Max simply had no grip. We did not really feel like we might change the tyres on.
“In order that’s the largest problem within the subsequent 4 days, is to know what brought about that?
“And clearly Brazil is a really totally different problem to this circuit, however it’s a sample that notably on the finish of the stints, you see the McLaren could be very, very robust, notably on the finish of grands prix.”
