Austrian GP: Christian Horner laments ‘hugely frustrating’ Sergio Perez after another early qualifying exit for Red Bull

Pink Bull staff principal Christian Horner was left rueing a “irritating” Austrian GP qualifying session for Sergio Perez, who was handed a monitor limits penalty regardless of being advised to “keep within the white traces.”

Perez was eradicated in Q2 on Friday, persevering with a poor latest run in qualifying the place he has didn’t make it to Q3 in 4 consecutive races.

In Austria, whereas team-mate Max Verstappen took pole, Perez had three lap instances worn out for monitor restrict infringements and can now begin Sunday’s race fifteenth on the grid.

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“He was matching Max’s instances, keep within the white traces!

“It was strike one, strike two, ‘Checo simply keep within the white traces!’ strike three, and that was it.

“[It is] simply massively irritating as a result of he may have been there, he may have performed it. That is the frustration. It is improbable that we received the pole, but it surely feels not full.”

Two-time world champion and runaway championship chief Verstappen took pole but once more, with Ferrari pair Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz behind.

Verstappen complained afterwards of it being “very tough” to evaluate monitor limits on the course and stated “lots of people had been being caught out, together with me.”

However Horner identified that whereas the Dutchman did have lap instances scrubbed off, he then posted reputable laps to make sure he would get the job performed.

“No less than [Max] responded to ‘keep within the white traces’ – he did that so he constructed a conservatism into his laps to be sure that he had a wheel inside the road,” stated Horner.

He added: “It is massively irritating. The irritating factor is we all know [Perez] can do it, he did a 4.9 on that lap, he was three hundredths off Max. He may have been 4 tenths slower and nonetheless been in.

“So Q2, that is not the time to be doing it. That was the irritating factor as a result of he may have performed it as we speak.

“It’s the identical for everyone, there is a automotive forward which isn’t going to have helped however then you definately construct in slightly extra margin.

“It is annoying as a result of we all know he may have been there.”

Perez has struggled to maintain up together with his team-mate this season, very like the remainder of the grid.

The Mexican is second within the driver standings with 126 factors, 69 behind Verstappen.

“Probably the most stress he is below, is the stress he places him below himself,” Horner continued.

“As we speak he had the tempo, Follow One he was proper there, the lap instances he was doing, he was tenth for tenth with Max as we speak. So that is the annoying factor, that is the frustration. He can do it.

“It is only a nice disgrace as a result of I feel this could have actually kick-started issues for him and naturally, the frustration for us as a staff is now now we have two Ferraris slightly nearer versus one Pink Bull with Checo out of place.”