Gutted Christian Horner claims Sergio Perez could have won F1 Azerbaijan GP
Christian Horner's verdict on Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz's🐈 crash

Christian Horner insisted that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez 🐼could have won the F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix without the mꦿisfortune that hindered him.
Red Bull’s Perez and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz were battling for third-pl🎶ace on the penultimate l⛦ap when they tangled, and smashed into the barrier.
Perez made his anger clear with an X-rated team radio rant🌳.
He had𒁏 preওviously been stuck behind Lando Norris, which gave him too much to do to catch race winner Oscar Piastri.
Red Bull’s gutted team principal Horner told Sky Sports about Perez: “He deserved a lot more. Ca🀅rlos d🐭rifts across the circuit.
“Very disappointing. He shou🌠ld have, at least, been on the podium.
“It destroyed ܫthe race for Checo, it did a lot of damage, and cost us vital points in the constructors’ championship.”
Stewards did not t🌳ake action after investigating the incident.
Red Bull lost the lead in the constructors’ championship to McLaren﷽ in Baku, thanks to Piastri’s win and Norris finishing P4.
Horner was asked if Perez cou♕ld have caught Piastri before his crash with Sainz.
“Difficult,” he r🍷espon༒ded. “Unfortunately he lost quite a bit of time on his out-laps after Alex Albon.
“Then Lando cost him dearly which gave Oscar the t𓄧rack position.
“Without that, he would have won the race today.
“It’s one of those things that is heartbreaking for the♛ team, to lose a podium in the dying laps of the race.”
Why was Perez faster than Verstappen?
F1 champion Max Verstappen was restricted to a 👍sub-par P5 in Azerbaijan.
Horner explained why P💦erezꦫ was faster: “He found a good rhythm and set-up.
“C🃏heco’s car was very quick today. We might have introduced some things on Max’s 🐽car which didn’t work so well.
“We damaged th♏e tyres fighting through for such a long period.
“Look at George Russell’s stint. He starts slowly, builds into it, then has a bette🍒r tyre at the end.
“So it’s really very frustrating.”
Horner said about McLaren taking charge of the constructors’: “There is still a lot of racing toꦦ ওdo.
“It was aꦯ magnificent ra♊ce at the front, for so many laps.
“We’re disappointing it came t🍒o close like that, when it diꦛdn’t need to.”
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J🔴ames was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decad෴e covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.