Perez charged again from ninth on the grid with a number of essential passes to affix winner Max Verstappen on the podium, as Crimson Bull broke a 35-year report by scoring its twelfth victory in succession.
The Mexican’s race got here after he’d ended a run of 5 races by which he’d began outdoors the highest 10 on the grid, solely mustering a single podium in that interval on the Crimson Bull Ring.
The return of Daniel Ricciardo to a race seat with Crimson Bull’s sister squad AlphaTauri has extensively been interpreted as a transfer to guage the Australian for a possible return to the highest staff, though Crimson Bull has publicly stood by Perez – who’s contracted to the tip of 2024.
Talking to Sky Sports activities after the race, Horner praised Perez for producing “an awesome race at this time”.
“His restoration, his overtaking was courageous,” stated Horner.
“His tempo was quick, the way in which he made the locations, passing automobiles, passing Fernando [Alonso], passing [Oscar] Piastri; the technique that he had, he was on hearth at this time.
“A race like that solely offers you an enormous quantity of confidence.
“I believe his overtaking, the bravery that he confirmed, for me that was actually an announcement drive at this time to say ‘look, do not write me off’.”
Sergio Perez, Crimson Bull Racing, third place, celebrates along with his staff in Parc Ferme
Picture by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Images
Horner additionally mirrored on the staff’s record-breaking feat that surpassed the 11 wins notched by McLaren in 1988, having prolonged a profitable run that started within the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Crimson Bull stays unbeaten in 2023, with Verstappen profitable 9 of the 11 grands prix to this point and Perez cleansing up within the different two.
Horner stated: “As a younger child I bear in mind watching the McLarens of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna reaching that unimaginable feat, to suppose we have now bettered that…
“They had been an unimaginable staff, Ron Dennis was an unimaginable staff principal, and to suppose that we have now bettered that’s one thing the entire staff right here in Budapest, in Milton Keynes, everyone behind the scenes has labored so laborious for and can imply so, a lot.”