AlphaTauri's misfortunes in Azerbaijan could have prevented the Red Bull drivers from having a far more contentious race on Sunday. AzerbaijanGP F1 RedBullF1
While parked at the side of the race track in a precarious position, a Safety Car intervention initially didn’t appear on the cards as the car appeared intact.
The timing wasn’t bad for Red Bull, given Verstappen had already been complaining about his rear tyre grip starting to fade away, with Horner also revealing that the team considered doing a double-stop by stacking their drivers. Both pitted at the end of that lap, capitalising on Verstappen’s slower pace under Safety Car conditions to come out in front of him and hand Perez the high ground.Max Verstappen never gets back within attacking range of Sergio Perez
Both slugged it out, as evidenced by their willingness to brush tyres against the barriers in the thrill of the stand-off, but it slowly but surely came Perez’s way as the gap eased out to over three seconds before Verstappen steadied the ship in the final 10 laps. “These kinds of things we’ll analyse anyway if it was the right call or not, but it was definitely unlucky,” Verstappen told Sky later.
Perez seems to have taken a similar mentality into 2023, and Red Bull are allowing their drivers to push each other to the very limit without yet reigning anyone in. In 2018, Verstappen battled Red Bull teammate Daniel Ricciardo on the streets of Baku, with the pair eventually colliding and both retiring.
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