Horner relaxed about title hopes, despite ’50-point loss’

Christian Horner is remaining calm about Red Bull’s title prospects this season, despite losing a hatful of points through their retirements so far in 2022.

Max Verstappen twice retired from second place on the road, and when combined with Sergio Perez’s retirement from P4 in Bahrain and two chances at a fastest lap, a full 50 points that were on the table for them have slipped through their grasp.

Perez admitted that these losses are likely to prove to be crucial at the business end of the season, but with a fast car and 20 races still to be run, the Red Bull team principal is relaxed that the team will have time to turn the tables on Ferrari at the front.

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“We’re just about 10 per cent of the way into the championship so I think there’s still a huge amount to go,” Horner said, quoted by Motorsport Week.

“The encouraging thing is we’ve got the basis of a quick car.

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“Ferrari was out of reach [on Sunday], their window that they were in with their tyre, you could just see they weren’t experiencing the problems either through blistering that some of