Max Verstappen took victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, but his Red Bull teammate Sergio Pérez did not have the best of weekends, leaving Montreal with zero points after suffering a reliability problem in his car .
First, in the qualifying session, Checo Pérez suffered an accident against the wall at turn 3, and was forced to start from 13th position after being eliminated in the second round. Then, when only eight laps had passed, technical problems with his RB18 caused him to retire.
After the race, Red Bull sports adviser Helmut Marko explained what exactly happened in the Mexican’s car, and at the same time assured that Max Verstappen could also have suffered a retirement due to a brake problem.
“Sergio [Perez’s] gearbox broke down,” Marko told Austrian channel ORF . “It was no longer new, but according to our calculations it should have lasted at least this grand prix. Maybe the accident on Saturday affected it in some negative way, although it seems that it was a hit that did not affect the transmission.
This, obviously, was a failure, but on the other hand, some believe that Checo Pérez had little chance to come back and reach the leading group in order to score many points, seeing all the difficulties that Charles Leclerc faced with his Ferrari.
The Monegasque started from the last row and finished fifth on a circuit where overtaking was not an easy task, creating trains of drivers that followed each other without being able to overtake.
“As for Max Verstappen ‘s car, there was no problem with the gearbox. But we were concerned about the brakes. At the start of the race, the temperature of his brake discs and pads were very close to a critical value. “, revealed the Red Bull adviser.
Despite this, the Dutchman won and widened his gap in the drivers’ championship, with 175 points, to 129 from a Sergio Pérez who remains second and 126 from a Charles Leclerc who managed to minimize the damage in a weekend that promised to be complicated from the start.
