Horner: I hope the weather won’t hinder us on Sunday

Red Bull Racing assesses the results of the day positively, especially because the RB20 car was able to set a good pace. But in the Saturday press release from the champion team, the words “unfortunately” and “sorry” are used most often…

Max Verstappen (4th in the sprint): “It’s a shame we couldn’t work on the track tonight and qualify. In the sprint we showed quite a good pace, but unfortunately we were stuck in the DRS train and could do little.

However, I managed to accelerate well coming out of Turn 3, so I was able to overtake, and it looked like I could compete with the cars in front of me, but there were fewer and fewer laps to go and at the end the yellow ones appeared flags. .

It’s a shame we got a penalty, but I think we had a great race and the pace was good. I’m happy that we were able to fight, because in the previous stages we couldn’t.

The weather in Brazil is very unpredictable and we don’t yet know what awaits us tomorrow. The competition promises to be very intense, but let’s hope we can work well on the last day of the weekend.”

Sergio Perez (8th in the sprint): “We still have some work to do, first of all we have to sort out the braking, but overall we had a good pace today.

It was a shame that the virtual safety car was introduced towards the end of the sprint as we thought we could beat the Alpine car and finish seventh.

It’s been a long time since I felt this comfortable while riding. We want to end the weekend with confidence, improving in qualifying and the race, because we have been quite competitive so far. McLaren is very strong, but tomorrow we will try to fight for the podium.

Unfortunately we couldn’t qualify due to the rain, but let’s hope the weather improves on Sunday and we can still please the Brazilian fans.”

Christian Hoornerteam leader: “How quickly the weather can change in Brazil! We had a good sprint and showed a confident pace. Unfortunately, Max’s penalty meant he lost third place, as well as some points, but that happens sometimes.

Sergio rode a good sprint and took several positions. We hoped we could perform well in qualifying, but unfortunately the weather had other plans.

The right decision was made to postpone qualifying, so now we are preparing to start quite early tomorrow to continue the work where we had to pause. Hopefully the weather won’t hinder us on Sunday and we can start racing.”