Horner about Max in Brazil: “Audacious driving and passing moves”

Published on 13 November 2016 by Niels Hendrix

Christian Horner, team principal of Red Bull Racing, says after the exciting Brazilian race: “An extraordinary motor racing day in testing conditions for the drivers and of course the officials. Having got ourselves into a good position at the start of the race, at the restart Max made an unbelievable pass on Rosberg round the outside of turn 3 which set up his afternoon of audacious driving and passing moves. It was a race that continuously teetered on the intermediate being the better tyre and after the delay due to the conditions it did look like the better tyre.”

“When Daniel fitted the tyre he started setting purple sectors and we therefore took the gamble to put Max on to the intermediates. The rain then marginally increased and we had to make a difficult decision to pit both of our cars, dropping them down the order but giving them fresh extreme tyres. Thereafter, the last fifteen laps were something special to witness as Max made his way back through the field to achieve a quite remarkable podium.”