‘Checo’ Pérez does not raise his head. after cfive consecutive grand prix without reaching Q3the Hungarian Grand Prix is presented as a revalidation for the Mexican, even more so considering that the arrival of Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri puts his continuity at Red Bull next season in doubt.
The leadership of the Austrian team hoped that this measure of pressure would translate into an increase in the performance of the Jalisco, but it has opened at the Hungaroring with a new fiasco.
As soon as he went out on the track in the first free practice session, Pérez went against the protections after putting two wheels on the grass, destroying the entire front end of his RB19.
The faces in the Red Bull garage were a poem. The team manager, Christian Horner, and his adviser, Helmut Marko, did not even want to look at the screens, and their lost looks were the best example of how disappointing the season for ‘Czech’ has been.
After the session, Horner evaluated his pilot’s accident. “It’s frustrating, Pérez made a mistake putting the wheels on the grasslet’s hope that the damage is contained only in the front part of the car”, said the director of Red Bull in statements to ‘Sky Sports’.
The accident is especially serious considering that Red Bull premiered a new aerodynamic package of which they have only been able to obtain data with Max Verstappen’s car.
