Christian Horner of Red Bull has praised Sergio Perez’s recent improvements, stating they have come at the right time for the team.
Sergio Perez’s current rise in form has been praised by Christian Horner after the Mexican driver finished third in Turkey and the United States for the second season in a row.
Perez has helped Red Bull cut the gap to Mercedes in the Constructors’ Championship to 23 points with five races remaining, after a difficult middle third of the season.
Horner, the Red Bull team manager, is delighted with the timing.
“I think it’s been coming for the last few races: Monza, he was strong, Sochi was strong,” Horner told select members of the media after the US Grand Prix. “He should have been on the podium at both of those races.
“He had a strong Istanbul, and he’s been on the pace all the way through this weekend. I think it’s just confidence. We need him delivering at this time of year, which is a great result for him.
“We’re managing to find a setup that works for him and managing to optimise the car around his style a bit more.”
Perez, who struggled with the physicality of the race at the Circuit of the Americas due to illness and a malfunctioning drinks bottle, ended over 40 seconds behind the lead, but explained that he couldn’t keep up due to a Medium-tyre stint and the physical challenge.
“It was nice, I think there are a lot of positives to take from the weekend,” he said.
“My race was, I think, firstly compromised by the tyres that I had, and being on the scrubbed Medium. I think was quite a bit of a disadvantage considering how high the degradation was.
“And then, I struggled massively, physically, from Lap 20 onwards, so it wasn’t an ideal race.
“But I think we managed to stay within the undercut region from the leaders and that really triggered the undercut, firstly with Max on Lewis.
“We tried to do the same with Lewis and he had no other option but to pit, so we avoid him doing his optimal race, so I think in that sense it worked well – but since Lap 20 onwards, I was pretty much done.”
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