Sergio Perez reckons Red Bull needing him to save his intermediate tyres is why Formula 1 team-mate Max Verstappen could cut his early 2023 Dutch Grand Prix lead in half.
A rain shower hit Zandvoort on the opening lap of the race and seventh-starting Perez reacted fastest by pitting at the first opportunity to ditch soft Pirellis for intermediates.
As the majority of the grid then stopped one tour later, the Mexican emerged with a 10.4-second advantage overEventual race winner Verstappen then started running up to four seconds faster than Perez to bring the gap down to four seconds before the two-time champion pitted on lap 11 to gain the undercut and subsequently the lead.
Perez reckons this significant pace differential was largely down to a need to save his intermediate tyres on a drying track as Red Bull warned that more rain was on the way. Asked by Motorsport.com to explain the delta, Perez said:"We were expecting rain, the team was telling me that there was more rain coming.
"The track was on the dry side, so if I were to push, I would just have destroyed completely the inter tyre.
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