Pink Bull staff boss Christian Horner says the Milton Keynes-based outfit wants to know the weak point displayed by its RB20 in Monaco however insists the latter hasn’t all of the sudden “gone from being an excellent automobile to unhealthy automobile”.
Pink Bull faltered final weekend within the tight and unforgiving streets of Monte Carlo, the place Max Verstappen struggled with the RB20’s stability on the monitor’s many bumps and kerbs.
The top consequence was a disappointing weekend, with the Dutchman qualifying a lowly P6 and ending the processional race in the identical place.
As for Sergio Perez, the Mexican didn’t even make it out of Q1 on Saturday whereas his Sunday was reduce brief after an enormous crash with Haas’ Kevin Magnussen on the opening lap of the race.
However total, Pink Bull’s efficiency – particularly in qualifying – paled compared to Ferrari and McLaren, the 2 leadings groups within the Principality.
Horner says Pink Bull wants to raised perceive its automobile’s compliance points in Monaco by digging into the trove of knowledge that it collected final weekend.
“Clearly this race is gained on a Saturday and that’s the place we had a poor day,” Horner stated after the race, quoted by Formula1.com.
“We have to perceive that, perceive what the problems have been with the experience and the kerbs.
“We noticed [the same weakness] in Singapore final 12 months as effectively, so we’ve had one other instance of that. We all know it’s an space of the automobile we have to work on.
“It was a really static race, the highest 10 completed the place they began from, the purple flag successfully killed the race as a result of everyone was going to run to the top of the race, so now we have some classes to take out of this weekend and study from clearly.”
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Regardless of its Monaco struggles, Pink Bull isn’t hitting the panic button simply but. However Horner famous that related challenges to these encountered by its RB20 final weekend might resurface at subsequent week’s Canadian Grand Prix on Montreal’s sometimes bumpy monitor.
Nevertheless, the Pink Bull chief is optimistic in regards to the automobile’s prospects for Barcelona, the Pink Bull Ring and Silverstone, the trio of smoother venues that can make up F1’s first triple-header of the season.
“Look, we don’t take something with no consideration, however we anticipate these tracks to go well with the automobile,” Horner stated.
“The automobile has gained 5 races and [scored] a second place in Miami and gained two Dash races, so it isn’t like this automobile has gone from being an excellent automobile to a foul automobile.
“This circuit [Monaco] hasn’t performed to our strengths, and we have to perceive what are these weaknesses and the way will we tackle them.
“I believe it’s a continuing course of as soon as you’re into the regulation of diminishing returns, and naturally your focus modifications relying on what your weaknesses are,” he added.
“The [RB] automobile is working with our suspension from final 12 months and doesn’t appear to have these points, so we have to perceive is it one thing now we have launched.”
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