Sergio Perez claims Ferrari would have “absolutely” won without Max Verstappen DNF

Sergio Perez thinks Ferrari had the pace to win in Melbourne e🐠ven without a DNF fo෴r Max Verstappen.

Max Verstappen leads at the start at the Australian GP
Max Verstappen leads at the start at the Australian GP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez is certain Ferrari would have still won the F1 Australian Grand Prix even if 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen didn’t retire.

Reigning world champion Verstappen lost the lead to Ferrari’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz on the second lap but was forced into his first DNF in two years when his Red Bull car suffered a 𝓰brake failure. 

Sainz then controlled the race as he headed teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc to complet🃏e a Ferrari 1-2 and end Red Bull’s perfe🍰ct start to the season.

And Perez belꦏieves Ferrari had a pace a༒dvantage over Red Bull in Melbourne.

“As a te♍am we just didn’t have the pace today,” the Mexican𒀰 told Sky. “We didn’t have the pace throughout the weekend.

“We were struggling already from Friday and we never got on top of the management of tyres. I think we just have🍰 to understand and make sure we are able to improve.

“We already saw last yea🐽r in a track like this, for example Vegas a front-limited track, Ferrari was a lot stronger than us. So we just couldn’t look after the front tyres.”

When asked if he thinks Ferrari wouꦆld have won even if Verstappen hadn’t retired, Perez said: “Absolutely, yes.”

Perez also conceded he lacked the pace to put himself in contention for vic💃tory.

“We ꦯdidn’t have the pace, unfortunately,” he said. “I think we struggled early on.

“We could see that Ferrari and McLaren were a step ahead of us. I think weᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ just couldn’t get the balance in the window. There’s some work to do for the coming races. It was a very unique Tarmac and just throughout the weekend we were not a🌳ble to manage the best possible grip level.”

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner revealed after th�♏�e race that Perez had picked up damage to his RB20. 

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