Sergio Perez’s bad story at Red Bull enters a new chapter in Austria: ‘Very disappointing’ | Formula 1

A bittersweet afternoon in Austria for Team Red Bull.

Max Verstappen stopped his car again on the pole. Sergio Perez was nowhere to be seen in Q3.

This causes slight frustration to team boss Christian Horner. “Today he had the car to be in the first two rows easily. He was driving it as fast as Max, but he had to stay within the white lines…”

transcend track boundaries In the second quarter, as a result, the Mexican saw his times slip away and remain in 15th place. “It’s very frustrating because he could have competed for first place. Max’s column is great, but the success feels a little patchy.”

Twentieth, eleventh, twelfth and now fifteenth. Perez isn’t entirely happy with the starting positions in his recent races. Poor performance They call it jargon. Especially when you see how the Dutch world champion dominates.

But the Mexican also has his reasons. “On the last lap I think Albon stopped me and I shot straight ahead, I couldn’t stop anymore,” he says of the mistakes I made today.

“There are so many things that I have no control over. If you finish your round, you will be blocked and you will also get a penalty…”, he laments.

“I think the system is completely wrong, very annoying. Anyway, they now have to regroup for the next sprint race and Sunday’s race.”