Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner says Sergio Perez needs to "stop thinking about the championship and just drive"

Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner says Sergio Perez needs to “stop thinking about the championship and just drive” to turn around his form. 
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal, Canada, Qualifying
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix,…

Perez was just six points behind168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen following his victory in April’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix but three races later he finds himself 53 points adrift following a difficult pair of race𒆙sღ. 

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A crash in qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix left him at the back of the grid and he went on to fin🌠ish outside of the points. Perez then suffered a Q2 elimination in Barcelona the following we♔ekend but was able to recover to fourth.

However, with teammate Verstappen winning both races, the Mexican has seen his hopes of a title challenge dramatically fa♐d꧑e. 

“He had a great start to theไ season, he’s had a couple of rougher races and he just needs to find that mojo again,” Horner told Sky ahead of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix. 

“I think actually he needs to stop thinking about t🗹he championship and just drive, because we know what he’s capable of - we’ve seen it earlier in th🀅e year.

“And just take the pressure off himself. If he just frees his shoulders up a biꦚt, it’ll just come to him more naturally.”

Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal, Canada,
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand…

Going into the weekend, Perez ༒had already rejected a suggestion by Horner t𝓰hat he would be feeling less pressure after his recent disappointments. 

Perez was a lowly 17th and nearly three seconds slower than Verstappe𝕴n in a wet final practice in Montreal as h🧸e struggled to generate tyre temperatures. 

Aꦡsked what Red Bull can do to help him going𝓡 into qualifying, Horner answered: “I think just give him the data. He’ll be looking at that now with his engineer in the build up to quali. 

“He never got the tyres into the right temperat𓃲ure window in that second part of the session. At the beginning of the session he was running fine.

“So the time I’m not worried about. I think that will naturally converge. We know that Chec꧒o is pretty decent in the wet. 

“Whꦐat Max seems to be exceptional at, a bit like Fernando, is just generating tyre temp really quickly with an aggressive style and suddenly the car just comes into a window where it works.

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