Red Bull’s participation in the F1 Miami Grand Prix nearly ended at the first corner following a close call between teammates168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Sergio Perez and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.

After making a fast start, Perez looked to dive down the inside of both Fer🌳raris as he attempted to jump up to second, but the Mexican could not slow down his car and locked up heavily into Turn 1.

O👍nboard footage from Perez’s car showed 🐻he came within inches of wiping out Verstappen before running wide and dropping down to fifth.

“In hindsight, if I knew there was no grip on the inside, I wouldn’t have gone there in the first place,” said Perez, who finished fifth on the road but was promoted to fourth following a post-race penalty for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz.

"I went there because I thought it was going to be safe. But as🌞 soon as I hit the brakes, I could see that the car wouldn’t stop. I ended up front locking 🍨and I went straight.

“That meant basically that I nearly too▨k Max out, so I had to release the brake to release the fr꧒ont locking.”

Red Bull team principal 🌟Christian Horner 🧸admitted Perez was “lucky” not to hit his teammate after what he described as being an “optimistic” start.

"His start was optimistic,” Horner explained. Charles didn't have a great start ahead,ꦿ I think that caused Checo... he had to lift for Charles and then he had a window into the first corner.

"He went for it, obviously got in very deep and was lucky not to collect Max at the first turn and 🌱not to collec𝕴t the Ferrari coming back onto the track.

"So I was pleased to see most cars survive that."

Verstappen, who finished second to McLaren’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lando Norris, is convinced Perez scratched his diꦬffuser as he lost con🗹trol of his RB20.

"I was very aware. I turned in and I saw him lock up," h☂e said. "And I looked after the race, there was like a scratch on my diffuser. So something must have hit.

"But yeah, it was very close. Could have ended in a disast💎er, of course, for the team a🍷s well. So yeah, lucky."