Horner says Red Bull 'never expected' the safety car to be deployed when it decided to pit Verstappen from the lead of the AzerbaijanGP. F1
While the world champion made short work of passing Leclerc at the following restart, the timing of the pitstop meant Perez was handed a clear run to victory, which he duly brought home with a measured performance.
Questions were raised on why Red Bull would decide to pit Verstappen knowing there was a stationary car on track, especially on a narrow street circuit of Baku where safety car interventions are numerous. "At the time we decided to pit Max because he was starting to struggle a little bit with the rears of his car and Checo was obviously right up behind him," said Horner.In the short snapshot available of de Vries' stationary car, Red Bull hadn't spotted that the
suffered terminal damage because the Dutchman had clipped the inside Turn 5 wall and bent his front-left corner."From the glimpse that we got, all four wheels were on the car, he hadn't hit the barrier and the engine was running," Horner added. "It looked like he'd select reverse and carry on, so you'd never expected that to go to a safety car."It was only subsequently on the replays that you were able to see his track rod was broken."
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