Pink Bull group principal Christian Horner performed down, however didn’t rule out, the potential for Liam Lawson changing Sergio Perez on the group this 12 months.
Perez failed to attain for the fifth time this season in Mexico. Pink Bull have been main the constructors’ championship 5 races in the past however fell to 3rd final weekend.
Pink Bull dropped Daniel Ricciardo from their second group RB two rounds in the past, changing him with Lawson, who impressed throughout a five-race spell as an alternative choice to the group final 12 months. Lawson scored factors on his return in Austin.
Perez endured a conspicuously poor weekend in his house race. He didn’t progress past Q1 and was penalised for a false begin earlier than damaging his automotive in an incident with Lawson.
However with simply 4 races left this season, Horner indicated he doesn’t envisage changing Perez with Lawson. “I feel it’s extremely, extremely unlikely,” he instructed Viaplay. “We’ll sit down and look and try to perceive what occurred on this race.”
Nevertheless he admitted Perez had a poor race in entrance of his house crowd. “He picked up various injury and his race was shot at that time,” stated Horner. “He picked up a penalty for the beginning. So positively a race to overlook.”
Perez laid the blame for his poor race at Lawson’s toes. “It was very unlucky as a result of we have been making plenty of progress,” he stated. “We have been positively moving into the proper route.
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“We have been as much as P10 already, though with the penalty we had to start with. It was trying like good factors for the day to minimise the injury however then sadly we got here along with Lawson and we picked up a large injury.”
Whereas Perez blamed Lawson for his or her collision, the stewards solely investigated the Pink Bull driver for the incident. They cleared him, however Perez believed Lawson ought to have been penalised.
“To me it’s easy,” stated Perez. “He was off the monitor. I used to be on the within into flip 4 and the one route he had was to chop the nook and go straight, simply principally like if there was nobody there. That meant that we broken the each of our races.”
The stewards dominated Perez made a late transfer which pressured Lawson off the monitor. “It’s not his fault, he’s developing and he’s simply driving with out management,” Perez continued. “He did the identical to Fernando final weekend, he’s achieved it to me, he’s achieved it to Franco on the finish of the race and there’s no penalty. So it actually relies upon who you might be right here and to see what kind of penalties you get.”
Perez stated he received’t “waste my time” attempting to speak to Lawson about their conflict: “He doesn’t perceive something.”
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