Max Verstappen you can cut him from 3rd place to today’s race, while in the 4th position his teammate, Sergio Perez lined up. THE Red Bull to his surprise he missed out on the Mercedes, on the time trial, at the German stable Valtteri Bottas he rented the first start line under his leadership.
In the 2019 race, Verstappen and Hamilton were already tense with each other in Mexico, and the two riders then clashed in corner 2.
Horner says they won’t have an easy thing to do, and it would be good if they could get to the edge already at the start.
“You have to be careful here because you can’t follow the other one for long as we lose control over the temperatures,” the specialist told Sky Sports F1 television.
“But I think the first option will be before Corner 1. Just look at the replays of the 2019 race to see if the situation here can be quite succulent! ”
“The wind shadow is obviously the strongest in the first lap. So it will be spectacular. We’re going to need a good start with both riders, we have to try to get started. ”
Horner added, I would definitely like to avoid what happened in the 2019 race being repeated.
“We don’t want it to happen again. In 2019, Max started from 3rd place and Lewis was very aggressive before corner 2 and then a puncture [a törmelékek miatt] ruined the rest of the race. ”
“We need to be there at the finish line and I still think we will have great opportunities in this race. But it will definitely be tougher than it looked. ”
Horner is also optimistic because it is unlikely that Verstappen will use the soft compound tires in today’s race, as he advanced to Q3 with medium-mixture tires.
“We looked pretty good on medium-compound tires all weekend. We won’t see soft tires again. Max wasn’t happy with these soft ones all weekend. And the hard tires were fine. ”
“So we have to find the start well and then we’ll see what happens to turn 1.”
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