Red Bull extends in both rankings
From +24 to +49 and from +31 to +56: in both the Constructors’ and Drivers’ standings, Red Bull and Max Verstappen have substantially doubled their margin on Ferrari and Charles Leclerc. Thanks to the Dutchman, who in Canada was practically perfect in a very complicated weekend for teams and drivers which saw Sergio Perez, Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz not score points.
It was from Baku 2022 that the Ferrari they both did not retire in a GP and from Melbourne 2023 they remained without points (on that occasion a five-second penalty to Carlos Sainz and an arrival under the Safety Car regime knocked the Spaniard out of the points).
Christian Horner This is how he commented on the weekend in Canada, not hiding the fact that Sergio Perez had a weekend “horrible”: “In a race like this, with such variable conditions, many things can go wrong, but we made the right choices at the right moments. McLaren were fast on the intermediates at the start of the race. Max was incredible. In those conditions he drives with instinct, but everything must work in unison and the Team proved to be up to the adverse conditions and gave its best in every area. There are many things you can get wrong, but fortunately we got them right. It was still a horrible weekend for Checo, but fortunately Ferrari didn’t score points with any of its cars and we managed to limit the damage. Perez will put this weekend behind him and return to fight in Barcelona.”. In two weeks in Spain the Mexican will have to serve a three-place penalty for having returned to the pits in dangerous conditions with the rear wing about to fail. Red Bull admitted that they asked Perez to pit to avoid a Safety Car that would have called into question Verstappen’s leadership.
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