Polesitter Verstappen reported a stuck brake from the start of the Melbourne race and after the problem made him lose the cause Sainz on lap 2, the Dutchman’s ideal rear brake lastly quit on lap 4, requiring him to retire.
Ferrari’s race efficiency and the method it dealt with front tire graining, which had actually currently looked appealing in practice, has actually triggered Perez to state that Sainz would have beaten Verstappen the race anyhow.
“Absolutely,” he responded when Sky Sports F1 asked him if Ferrari still would have thrived without Verstappen’s problems.
“I believe simply as a group, we simply didn’t have the rate today. We didn’t have the rate throughout the weekend.
“We were having a hard time currently from Friday and we never ever got on top of the management of tires.”
Perez himself ended up fifth after having a hard time to go up the field from 6th on the grid and thinks circuits where the front tires are put under more tension than the backs, like Albert Park, are a vulnerable point for the Milton Keynes clothing.
“We were having a hard time early on, we might see that Ferrari and McLaren were an action ahead of us. I believe we simply could not get the balance in a window. And there is some work to do for the coming races.
Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB20
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“We currently saw in 2015 in a track like this – for instance, Las Vegas a front-limited track – Ferrari was a lot more powerful than us so we jus