Horner after Max takes pole in Austria: 'superb job'

Published on 30 June 2023 by Yvonne Huijs

Christian Horner, team principal of Oracle Red Bull Racing, saw how Max Verstappen took pole position in Austria. Meanwhile Sergio Pérez did not go any further than fifteenth position, after his lap times got deleted three times.

"It was a difficult session today”, says Horner. “t’s very hard to see the white lines as we can see from the number of infringements, but a superb job from Max to get that pole despite needing to be a little more conservative due to track limits. For Checo it was more frustrating, he had the pace and was putting in similar lap times to Max but unfortunately he had three deleted lap times. He’ll be incredibly frustrated, but he’s got the full support of the Team and we all know what he’s capable of, he’ll turn the page and race hard for the rest of the weekend.  This track is one you can overtake on, you can see the Ferraris had great pace and Charles was just half a tenth off at the end, so the weekend offers some tough but exciting racing."

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