In the hours following the Brazilian Grand Prix there was much talk of theSergio Perez qualifying crash in Monte Carlo, given that several rumors have emerged about the presumed voluntary nature of the impact by the Mexican. In fact, the Red Bull driver’s telemetry showed that corner entry was much slower than usual and an unusual accelerator hit in the middle of the corner, just when Perez lost control of the rear of the RB18. ‘Checo”s move would have been thought of by the expert driver to freeze the positions in qualifying a few moments from the end and therefore to start ahead of teammate Verstappen, on a track where grid positioning is essential. Incredible as it is, doubt has been instilled in many enthusiasts, but the Federation has decided not to open any investigation, as the analysis of the data is considered too weak evidence and there has been no confession from the parties involved.
He returned to the Munich incident Christian Horner, goaded by a precise question at the press conference. The British manager stayed away from the heart of the matter, speaking generally of the repercussions the team had from the impact with Perez’s barriers: “Any accident under a cost cap framework is disastrous. In particular, those that take place on a city layout are very expensive and therefore far from ideal. I do not deny that there was a lot of frustration, because an accident of that type could have damaged the gearbox and also caused a lot of damage to Sainz who arrived. It was the most serious accident we have had in terms of costs, and this is reflected in a one-to-one relationship on development. In fact, you have to choose whether to produce spare or development parts. But in general our drivers did a great job dealing with the crashes and in fact we probably had the least amount of damage on the whole grid“. And also on possible penalties for drivers causing yellow or red flags in qualifying Horner remained vague: “There was a meeting in the Commission, but I guess the intention was to then go back to the sports directors to discuss the different scenarios, in view of a further future meeting”.
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