Red Bull: Helmut Marko accuses Carlos Sainz: “It was not necessary.”

Helmut Marko already goes flat against Carlos Sainz

The Baku GP è ended in the worst way for Red Bull, as Max Verstappen saw his lead in the drivers’ world championship over Lando Norris shrink even further, Sergio Perez lost his chance to grab the podium due to an accident with Carlos Sainz in the final laps and the Austrian team was overtaken in the constructors’ world championship by McLaren. On the contact between the Mexican and the Ferrari driver he è expressed himself bluntly, at the microphones of "Servus TV", the Milton Keynes team adviser Helmut Marko.

"Checo was about to overtake Leclerc and lost some grip. Then Sainz overtook him and he è regained the position shortly after. At that point Carlos made a sharp maneuver to the left and è crashed into Perez for no reason. With two laps to go in the Gp, it was absolutely not necessary to provoke something like that" began the former Austrian driver.

"Sergio è came out of the corner better and obviously tried to give the right space to avoid contact. He held his line. This incident è cost us a lot in amount of points and now everything will be even more difficult ahead of Singapore, as we will not be able to test some changes on Checo" car, added the Red Bull consultant.

"If we are too aggressive in terms of setup we suddenly lose performance. Tire wear è was also higher on Max’s car, which also had some brake problems. Verstappen did some very fast laps, but he couldn’t è find continuity, while Checo è did well and that makes us realize that we are going in the right direction. I believe that in Austin we will have a package of updates that will allow us to become very competitive again" Helmut Marko commented.