Horner stressed that Checo Pérez is playing well for the team, hinting that the Mexican has set aside his individual goals
The head of Red Bull, Christian Horner, Assured that the hiring of Sergio Checo Pérez for the current 2021 season was the right one, considering that has helped the team stay in the fight for the world championship of builders and generate pressure on the Mercedes.
Horner considered that the philosophy of the equipment is to give opportunities to the young people trained in its academy, but was forceful when indicating that to bet by a pilot like Czech Perez, who in 2020 was fourth in the world-wide championship of pilots , was the ideal.
“From time to time you have to quit the program and i think it was a brave decision to do that, but i think it was the right decision. The dynamics in the team are working well, ”the manager expressed.
Amid rumors pointing to the continuity of Checo Perez with the Austrian team, Horner also took time to talk about Pedra Gasly, who was demoted to AlphaTauri for not performing well during the time he was a teammate of Max Verstappen.
“Pierre is doing a fantastic job at AlphaTauri, and he’s still a Red Bull racing driver, so we’re in a good place,” he explained.
With the Czech fighting for third place in the World Drivers’ Championship and after climbing the podium twice during the first 11 races, Christian Horner said that, “Sergio has fulfilled the role we expected”.
“They saw him in Baku when he got a win the day he was able to put Lewis (Hamilton) under pressure,” he added. Faced with this, he has considered that Checo Pérez “is a great team player.”
“He has been collecting these points for the constructors’ championship, and playing the team game, as we have seen in the French GP. He is a great team player and we are very happy with the work he is doing“It’s over.