Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has explained the logic for the pitstop call which led to Max Verstappen jumping ahead of teammate Sergio Perez at the F1 Dutch Grand Prix.
“Checo had the target to pull the gap on the cars behind him but Max’s pace as he came through the field was such that at one point he took seven seconds out of him over three laps. And was coming very fast.
“Then you get to that awkward point at the crossover and [Fernando] Alonso and [Pierre] Gasly behind him had pulled the trigger after [to switch to slicks].“So had we pitted Checo first they would have both undercut Max so we’d have gone from a net one-two to a net one-four. So we pitted Max first with the risk that he’d undercut Checo but we’d end up as a team first and a second.“It was a no-brainer.
Perez, who slipped to fourth after a spin and time penalty for speeding in the pit lane, sounded confused over the team radio when he re-emerged from the pits in second place, asking: “did Max undercut us?”“Well, I think in those scenarios the team just have more information than we do at the time,” Perez said.
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