Christian Horner says he shouted 'get him in' at Max Verstappen's race engineer to make sure Red Bull would not risk the Dutchman's Formula 1 home win at Zandvoort.
"I think it's a combination of the two," he added."There were so many things that could go wrong.
The first rain shower occurred during the start, with seventh-starting Perez immediately opting to pit while Verstappen stayed out longer and lost the lead to his team-mate. "It was Sergio's call that that he wanted to pit and that paid dividends for him, and he was the first one certainly from the front-running cars to jump onto the inters. Max came in at the end of the next lap.
The roles were reversed when Verstappen undercut Perez on the change back to slicks 10 laps later, a decision which puzzled the Mexican at the time.
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