Czech described the qualifying session as disappointing but defended the Red Bull team’s strategy
the Mexican Sergio Checo Pérez lamented his elimination in the second qualifying round of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Circuit in which it could not meet the expectations of the team to be placed in the eleventh position of the starting grid for the race to be held this Sunday at the Sakhir Circuit.
Faced with the choice of average tires and a difference of 035 thousandths in the clock with the tenth place, Checo Pérez pointed out. “It wasn’t the expected qualification. I didn’t do the lap I wanted.” Perez defended Red Bull’s strategy to go out and look for the qualification in the third round with the average compound and has assured that this would have given them an advantage.
“Yes, because I think that having worked gave us a good advantage for the first part of the race in having this tire. Today we didn’t get it and that’s a bit disappointing,” he said.
Checo Pérez mentioned that the short internship time and the traffic on the track complicated its evolution. over the weekend.
“We had a lot of problems with the traffic and I was out of position, and so on, but these are things we have to solve. It’s been a difficult weekend. Bahrain is a very complicated circuit because you only have one lap and then you no longer have tires, the wind changes you, you have to be patient and learn from tomorrow “, he explained.
In the same way, showed his optimism in adapting the RB16B and assured that his learning has been complicated.
“Every kilometer I do on the car helps me a lot to understand it better. The car has a very peculiar driving style and a very small work window that I have to learn. Every lap I give I understand it better,” ended
Your teammate, Max Verstappen got the Pole at Sakhir, So the score in qualifying is put 1-0 in favor of the Dutch. A section in which dominance is expected by the European, as the Czech is not exactly the fastest driver in a lap.