[Team] Red Bull: Unbullievable

[Teretonga]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

He is a very experienced F1 driver. It wasn't his first dalliance with a damp and greasy track. He also has a tongue in his head. If he thought it was a stupid decision to go out then he should have said so..... but maybe he did and he was forced to go out.....

I had a feed from one of the many fan sites pop up on my phone feed the evening after I write that comment and Horner in answer to questions about the Perez performance in the race basically said that it was a team decision to see if they could elevate him into a point scoring position.

He was right when he said that if the rain had stayed and Perez had a leap on the rest of the field it would have looked like a brilliant decision, but it didn't, so it wasn't.

But he also batted away, under questioning, the idea of the Lawson run on Thursday being a test for replacing Perez. He indicated that Perez was staying as the performance was a result of team decisions, and that the Lawson run had been planned for months and was a filming event.
He also mentioned that he was having a run in an RB8 on Thursday (but that wouldn't mean he'd be lining himself up to replace anyone....)

All of this basically goes to show that much of the fan site click baiting is just speculative nonsense to raise the fan site click on numbers and none of has much substance.
The teams know what is going on in their own environments and have the data and knowledge to support their decisions.
The fan sites and keyboard warriors don't, and few of them seem do much analysis of what really happened in any particular circumstance.