Meanwhile, Red Bull reserve driver Liam Lawson is set to participate in an upcoming test session for the team at Silverstone – just as Daniel Ricciardo did last summer, which prompted the decision for the Australian to replace the struggling Nyck de Vries at the then-named AlphaTauri squad.
Asked about the parallels between Lawson’s test and Ricciardo’s – and whether a driver line-up shuffle could potentially be on the cards amid Perez’s recent struggles – Horner answered: “The Liam test aero run has been planned for a couple of months now.
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“Checo, of course he’s under pressure – that’s normal in Formula 1 – but when you’re underdelivering, that pressure only mounts, and he’s aware of that. He knows that. This weekend, nothing’s really gone his way.
“We took a gamble in the race – he started on the hard tyre, was making decent progress early on in the race. The rain started to arrive, he was P15 or P16 at the time. You roll the dice a little at that point, as they [Ferrari] did with Leclerc.
“He went on the inter, if the race had picked up he’d have looked a hero – it didn’t, so you don’t, and then he had an extra stop. The time loss of being on an inter on a drying track was haemorrhaging a lot of time for him. Obviously a lot to look at from over the weekend.”
