Max Verstappen and Checo Perez are fighting for the first position in the world. And so far they have been respected on the track: clean fights and no friction. For now. Because if this fight continues until the end, surely sparks will fly between the two pilots.
At Red Bull they are not worried despite the atmosphere that is being created around them. In fact, Christian Horner He has described the alleged confrontation between the Dutch and Mexican as “paranoia”. This is how he expressed it in ‘RacingNews365’.
“I think it’s a luxury problem. Any director would want to have this problem, and it’s something we’ve experienced before. I think the key is to make sure that paranoia does not grow and that both drivers are treated equally,” says the Red Bull boss.
“You strive to provide equality, to the point of who comes out of the box first every weekend. They alternate, they even alternate in the ‘briefing’ who speaks first,” Horner said.
At the moment there will be no team orders. In Red Bull they will let their own fight: “I think that as long as the drivers know that both have the same opportunities, everything will depend on what they do on the circuit.”
Of course, they make it clear that they cannot have everything under control: “It’s racing, it’s F1, and occasionally there will be something like a safety car or a pit stop and you can’t control every aspect of the car. There are variables”, has sentenced.
