Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner says Sergio Perez needs to "stop thinking about the championship and just drive"

Red Bull F1 team principal Christian Horner says Sergio Perez needs to “stop thinking about the championship and just drive” to turn around his form. 
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal, Canada, Qualifying
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix,…

Perez was just six points behind168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen following 🍸his victory in April’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix but three races later he finds himself 53♛ points adrift following a difficult pair of races. 

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A crash in qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix left him at the 🌟back of the grid and he went on to finish outside of the points. Perez then suffered a Q2 elimination in Barcelona the following weekend but was abꦕle to recover to fourth.

However, with 🐭teammate Verstappen winning both races, the Mexican has seen his hopes of a title challenge dramatically fade. 

“He had a great st𝔉art to the season, he’s had a couple of rougher races and he ju🅺st needs to find that mojo again,” Horner told Sky ahead of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix. 

“I think actually he needs to stop thinkin🦩g about the championship and just drive, because we know🍒 what he’s capable of - we’ve seen it earlier in the year.

“And just take the pressureﷺ off himself. If🍎 he just frees his shoulders up a bit, it’ll just come to him more naturally.”

Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal, Canada,
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 9, Canadian Grand…

Going into the weekend, Perez had already rejected a suggestion by Horner that he would be feeling less ♒pressure after his recent disappointments. 

Perez was a lowly 17th and nearly three seconds slower than Verstappen in a wet final practice in Montreal as he struggled to gen🔥erate tyre temperatures. 

Asked what Red Bull can do to help him going into qualifying, Horner answered: “I think just give him the data. He’ll be looking at that n🥂ow wit💧h his engineer in the build up to quali. 

“He never got the tyres into the right temperature window in that second part of the session. At the beg🍬inning of the session he was running fine.

“So the time I’m not worried about. I thi⛦nk that will naturally converge. We know that Checo is pretty decent in the wet. 

“What Max seems𒁃 to be exceptional at, a bit like Fernando, is just generating tyre temp really quickly with an aggressive style and suddenly the car just comes into a window where it works.

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