Red Bull predict ‘similar reverse outcome’ in latest Perez/Sainz incident

Sergio Perez heads through the tight Turn 8 in Baku

Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz again caught the attention of the Baku stewards with their antics in FP3, but Christian Horner expects nothing but a warning for his driver.

Perez and Sainz visited the Azerbaijan stewards for the first time on Friday with Sainz in the hot seat for seemingly blocking Perez in FP2.

Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz were at it again in Baku

Approaching the high-speed Turn 14, Perez was on a flying lap when the Ferrari driver slowed through the flat-out corner which forced the Red Bull driver to take avoiding action.

“What is he doing?! That was very close!” Perez bemoaned.

The stewards issued Sainz a warning in “accordance with the agreed guidelines” as they noted the Ferrari driver had been “distracted by a variety of alarms on the car” and “misjudged the closing speed.”

They were again on the stewards’ radar after FP3, this time with Perez the one perhaps needing to explain his actions should he be summoned.

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Putting in the laps late in the session, Sainz arrives at Turn 15 to find a slow Perez ahead of him on the track.

He had to take the escape road to avoid an incident, and made his thoughts clear over the radio.

“F**k! That was huge. What he did was crazy!” he said.

The stewards noted the incident but Horner is expecting nothing more than a warning for his driver. After all, he reckons it was a repeat of Friday’s incident just the other way around.

“”I think we didn’t give perhaps Checo the information early enough about Carlos,” he told Sky. “It was almost… it wasn’t quite as bad as yesterday’s, but it was almost an action replay of yesterday.

“So I would expect a similar reverse outcome.”

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