Christian Horner said it was small margins to blame for Sergio Perez's loss of his immense tyre preservation talents. F1
The ‘tyre whisperer’ Sergio Perez appeared a little off-key in 2022, Red Bull’s Christian Horner explaining that a narrow setup window was to blame.
Normally, that would be very good news for Perez who has built himself a reputation for excelling when it comes to preserving tyre life, though in 2022 it seemed like his team-mate Max Verstappen had actually mastered this art with the 18-inch rubber. But speaking more broadly, Horner believes Perez has shown struggles like in Abu Dhabi to be a blip rather than an ongoing issue.“You can be a click of front wing out, or a bit of ride height , or a small amount of mechanical balance, and it can have a dramatic effect on your tyre life.
“That then put him out of sync where we had to pit and that was on a very compromised one-stop. So the two-stop was the more attacking race.”While there will be some differences between the 2022 and 2023 tyres, including the introduction of a new, the size and main characteristics of the compound will offer continuation from 2022, so Perez will need to put any learnings from the season just gone into use.
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