Max Verstappen secured a spot on the front row in Las Vegas Grand Prix qualifying while Sergio Perez didn’t even make it through to Q3 as Red Bull made a rare error.
Red Bull admitted making a key error which condemned Sergio Perez to another poor qualifying result.
One-lap pace has been the Mexican’s weakness this year and the source of many of his struggles. And, again, he could not even reach Q3 at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. But this time the team had to take a significant share of the blame.
The track was improving all the time, meaning that the best laps were going to be achieved at the end of each part of the session. But Red Bull gambled that Perez would be better off setting his Q2 out of the traffic and so put him out on track earlier than others.
But it didn’t pay off. Despite being comfortably in the top 10 after setting his time. He returned to the pits only to sit there powerlessly as, one by one, his rivals kept leapfrogging him until he was down in 12th on the timesheets.
