Helmut Marko says missing out on second place in the drivers' championship is partly down to Lewis Hamilton. He does not think it has anything to do with Red Bull Racing's strategic choices.
Marko does not believe the two-stopper was detrimental to the Mexican. According to the Red Bull adviser, everything went according to plan, but Perez had to drive too aggressively in battle with Hamilton. "I think Checo pushed a little too hard and that's why we had to bring him in earlier than planned," Marko told German Sky Sports.
Red Bull was surprised by Ferrari
Still, the second place should have been in it according to Marko. "It was only the overtaking manoeuvre on Hamilton where Perez lost time. Otherwise, it should have been enough," the Austrian explained. At the finish, the gap to Charles Leclerc was only just over a second.
At the same time, Marko admits that his team was somewhat surprised by Ferrari's strategic choices. "We were surprised that Ferrari could run the one-stop with Leclerc. That was actually not in our planning," he acknowledges. Nevertheless, he feels his team can be more than satisfied with Sunday's result and the successful season in general.
Perez and Daniel would be a good combination. SACK THAT SELFISH BRAT.
Red Bull need to look closer to home! If they really wanted to get the 1, 2 then after Max had got the championship they should have insisted he helps out Perez and not keep his own agenda. Max is self centred and thinks he can do what he wants so stop blaming other teams for your own failings. Anyway, isn't that the whole idea of racing that other drivers try to better themselves?
So interesting that in 2021, the red bull narrative was that a “championship is won over the course of a season” and then in 2022, Checo lost 2nd place in the last race because of Hamilton. Absolutely nothing to do with team orders over the course of the season and internal team politics of course. Just blame someone else and no one better than their favourite target, Lewis Hamilton/Mercedes. I feel so bad for Checo and Max as a neutral. Marko and Horner are unbearable and they’re such appalling examples of leadership for a young driver with so much to learn like Max. No accountability for their own mistakes and always deflect and blame anyone else.Absolutely toxic and objectively have generated this negativity surrounding F1 over the last couple years. Max could be a great champion and possibly the GOAT but hard to see how he will be a complete champion surrounded by the likes of those two. “Attack is the best form of defence” as Horner says every chance he gets and it’s win at all costs while they burn the paddock down along the way.
Max has 2 WDCs and both are tarnished by some form of cheating - 2021 by collusion/incompetence by Masi/RBR and 2022 with RBR cheating on the budget cap in developing the 2022 car. Not Max's fault. He should have sewn up the 2021 championship a lot earlier and without the AD2021 controversy.
The journalist who gave this article its title, is playing with peoples emotions. Marco didn’t say it was Luis‘s fault. He, in fact, said Sergio‘s maneuvers cause tire wear and cost him time. So, he was actually blaming Sergio for not being efficient and his overtake of Hamilton. Also, admittedly, Marco is deflecting, or at least, attempting to, attention away from maxes refusal to let Sergio overtake him in the previous race. Don’t let journalist manipulate you.
Seriously Marko? You had to dig deep for that one. Hamilton does not run REDBULL. was he supposed to pull over and let PEREZ pass? Keep it real man. You are smarter than this.
No he is not smarter than that, you are giving him too much credit, Lewis is no where in the equation regarding the controversy in RedBull but yet Helmut Wacko has Lewis on his mind, Lewis is definitely living rent free better than a squatter in their heads.
The funniest RB comment was Max saying it would have been a bad way to end the season by holding someone up. I guess he meant unless it was to help him. I doubt Lewis was doing anything to intentionally cost Perez beyond wanting the position but even if he did, he (Perez) earned it. It was his choice to do so last year so it isn't something he'd be surprised about not I suspect would Perez himself ha e any complaints as he understands that.
With a statement like Lewis cost Checo 2nd place in the championship how in the hell did he get to the position he himself is in
So Max and Checo both say Checo could have pushed harder on his tyres during the second stint but the team were too conservative. Checo said they stopped too early for the first stop yet Marko, as usual, blames everyone else, particularly Hamilton.
Checo only has himself to blame. Max would have made childsplay out of Hamilton and passed Charles with 4-5 laps to go. Charles fully deserved finishing 2nd.
How do you fathom that? Oh right you're thinking of child's play as, when a kid smashes their car into another and goes "vrooom vroom, I win, I win!"
All the Hamilton sufferers trying to hang on to the Brazil story is quite annoying. People do the math before you embarras yourselves. The 2 points in Brazil would have made no difference! Please give some credit to Charles for a brilliant drive rather than suppressing your Lewis disappointment by hating on Max!!!
What are you talking about? Lewis and Sergio are rival teams therefore they race. Max cost Sergio second place in the Championship. Stop trying to deflect on what Max did. We see what you trying to do.
Marko says Perez pushed too hard and shouldn’t’ve taken so long to pass Hamilton. Only the flame-fanning GPBlog title says he, supposedly, blames Hamilton. All to get the flame war going and get clicks on the article. Shameful “reporting”
Perez did the same mistake 2 times today! Overtook BEFORE the turn and din't have DRS after! Perez must level up!!
The title is misleading. That's not at all what Marko said. Perez made his own race today. He was helped by Max to get the 2nd place in quali and he didn't perform.
Isnt it always in gpblog how they give titles that are misleading to click bait. Alas true journalism is a dying breed and sensationalism and half truths is the preferred medium.
At least Lewis has the satisfaction of having Checo back for last year. They are now tied.
Now now doink don't say a bad word about vercrashen coz you will have the orange bitter army brigade. Using choice words against you. But I have to say you are so correct vercrashen not a team player which is so obvious. And if horner and marko had a pair between them he should be brought back down to earth instead vercrashen thinks he owns the team
Marko is wrong, Sergio has had 22 races to get more points than Charles. Not only today in AD Why would Lewis let him overtake easy? No way. Perez should have driven much faster and better all season long. Charles at the end, has deserved 2 nd place in WC.
That a fact, but Marko doesn't blame Hamilton on this one. The tilte of the article provided by GPBlog suggests something else. Feeding the discussion. Clearly Perez made too much little errors today to claim second place. Leclerc drove a pretty good race. And for once Ferrari didnt make stategy errors.
Let's face it, Checo may be a likeable chap and good at managing tyres but WDC material he is not. He was unable to beat Leclerc despite Ferrari messing up on strategy and reliability with Leclerc throughout 2022. He should have been well clear of Leclerc. Frankly, he has wasted the 2nd seat at RBR. Leclerc deserved to be 2nd overall in the WDC.
Even the commentators,that knows very little of F1,mentioned that Checo should have waited for the next straight. Would have lost a lot less time doing it that way,then having to wait a whole lap to be able to do it. It wasn't very clever and probably influenced by his team instruction to get it done asap.
Did you say some of the commentators know very little of F1? For real?
Have you listened to them lately....they are no more than fan boys that knows very little about the machinery and is more interested in who is wearing what or who tweeted something.
Lewis was racing for position or is that not allowed now Marko? What actually cost Perez 2nd place in the championship was Max not obeying team orders in Brazil, he could have even backed LeClerc into Perez's DRS today but chose to think about his 15 wins instead
Perez needs to race and get his own points......... Max can't do everything for Perez.....All Perez does is race behind cars all year..............And yes Lewis did slow Perez down....And Perez didn't want to be taken out by Lewis.......
You are not too bright in math, are you? Even with those two points, Leclerc would have ended above Perez.
Blessed are the ignorant ;-) Must be a fine life not bothering with facts. Yes, Max should have let Perez through in Brazil, even though it would not have mattered for the standing or the end result. Even if he did, they would still race for it here and the one who finished ahead would win. Yes, he could also back Leclerc down into Perez, but also Leclerc into his own DRS. Which means that you get a DRS train. You know what that is don't you? Would not have worked also. Basically, Max did all he could do today, the rest is up to Perez to get the job done. He didn't. What is even worse is having you teammate upfront on 30 laps old hards who, if needed, could still go much faster than all those on fresher tyres.
Max could of tried because his had nothing to lose, but he is too selfish
Like said, trying does not help in this respect. Both would get DRS. They mentioned it, commentators mentioned it. But fine to continue to hate mate ;-) Btw, if you listened to the board radio, Max was not even asked to back Leclerc off into Perez, because the team knew it would be of no use.
Backing up a driver to help your team mate is not racing. Only a team like Mercedes would have used such a tactic.
There is a big difference between beeing caught up then fight for position and purposely loosing a 7 second advantage to block your opponent...
He was not sacrificing anything. He was being caught up by a faster car and did what racers are supposed to do and try to keep the guy behind... behind. It is quite baffling that you cannot see the difference.
Perez did it last year by sacrificing his position in backing up Lewis just enough for Max to get close enough before Masi and Latiffi did their web spinning.
You just exposed your stupidity and have no knowledge of team racing. That is a common tactic in all types of racing except for the sprints in track and field.
You tell me that the driver leading the race loosing a 7 second advantage on purpose to block a competitor is common practice? Here are the basis of racing for you: - You want to be keep the guy behind as far behind as you can ; - You want to be in front of the guy in front. I have never heard of: - You want to slow down to allow the guy behind to catch up. Not sure that this is a sound tactic to be honest.
Nope. There is a huge difference between being caught up by a faster opponent and slowing down to let a slower opponent catch up. Obviously any racer will try his best not to let this opponent pass.
Let’s see. 305 points + 2 = 307 for Perez vs 308 for Charles, so either way, Charles would have been ahead in P2. Only difference is losing by one miserable point might seem even worse that losing by 3!
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