Sergio Perez’s Alleged Planned Monaco Crash A Major Blow to Already Down Bad Red Bull: “There Has Been A Lot of Frustration”

Drama at Red Bull escalates between the two in-house drivers. Whilst the team principal, Christian Horner, steps in to clear the air and set things straight for the record. Post the Red Bull team order fiasco between the world champion, Max Verstappen, and teammate Sergio Perez at the Brazilian Grand Prix talks regarding Checo’s ‘purposeful’ crash in the qualifying at Monaco Grand Prix started spiraling in the F1 media.

Few reports suggest that Sergio Perez admitted to his team that he had, in fact, crashed on purpose in order to secure a start ahead of Verstappen at the street circuit.

The FIA decided to not go forward with any investigation regarding the subject as they believe that the proof of evidence was rather too weak, and there have been no official confessions from the parties involved.

And if that isn’t troubling enough, the team was earlier found in violation of the 2021 season’s cost cap regulations. Subsequently, they were handed a $7 Million penalty and there was a 10% reduction in their wind tunnel time for 2023.

Now, Team principal Christian Horner stepped in to diffuse the controversy. He said, “Any accident within a cost ceiling is disastrous. In particular, those that take place on a city route are very expensive and therefore far from ideal.” [Translated by Google]

“I do not deny that there has been a lot of frustration, because an accident of that kind could have damaged the gearbox and caused a lot of damage to Sainz as well. It was the most serious accident we have had in terms of costs, and this is reflected in a one-to-one relationship on development.”

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“But in general our drivers did a great job on crashes and in fact, we probably had the least amount of damage on the entire grid,” he said in conclusion.

As the drama unfolds, Perez shared his thoughts on the matter in an interview.

Sergio Perez speaks up about the friction with Max Verstappen

With people constantly weighing in on the matter, Checo decided to come forth and get candid in an interview.

He expressed his thoughts on the incidents with Max in Monaco, as well as in Brazil. When asked about the ‘Monaco’ allegations, he said, “No, we discussed what happened in Brazil and we went through all the scenarios, all the mistakes we did as a team instead of not preparing the race enough and so on.”

Before revealing he and Max have not talked about Monaco, he concluded, “As I said, whether it’s Monaco or it’s other things, that’s down to him [Verstappen] to tell you [why he didn’t give the place up in Brazil]. I don’t know how long it’s been there [in his head].”

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Things at Red Bull have seemed a tad bit tense since Brazil. What will the incoming season hold for the Austrian team? Will they emerge as the most dominant team once again?