In the round-up: Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has categorically denied claims his position in charge of the team is under threat.
In brief
Horner has long-term commitment to Red Bull, regardless of Porsche
Reports in Dutch media yesterday claimed Horner was concerned he could be replaced as team principal if their deal with Porsche goes ahead. He emphatically rejected the claims after yesterday’s race.
“There’s always wild rumours in this paddock. I recently made a commitment to this team for the long-term and indeed any discussions that we’ve had have been contingent upon the management structure being the same, which has always been fully accepted. So I don’t really need to comment on wild speculation,” Horner affirmed after the Dutch Grand Prix.
Zhou pit lane speeding incident “just a bit unlucky”
Alfa Romeo head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar said that the pit lane speeding incident which earned Zhou Guanyu a five-second penalty during the Dutch Grand Prix was caused by anti-stall.
“It just was a bit unlucky on Zhou’s side,” explained Pujolar. “He was just braking into the pit lane and applying the pit limiter, he locked the rears and then it triggered the anti-stall, it just slowed down too much. When he recovered he just overshot slightly the speed and got caught over-speeding.”
Stewards “don’t like” F2 collision, but no penalty
Richard Verschoor claimed second place in the Formula 2 feature race at Zandvoort after colliding with Jack Doohan following a late-race Safety Car restart. Doohan’s race was ended by the clash but Verschoor was not penalised for the collision.
Speaking after the race Verschoor apologised to his rival. “It was definitely not my intention to hit him,” he said. “I thought everybody was going and then we all slowed I locked all my wheels but I couldn’t avoid it. It’s not the way I want to finish second.”
“Because the last corner is banked I couldn’t see the cars in front,” the Charouz driver explained. “Then the two cars in front of me start accelerating and suddenly they braked and I was just too close. I thought I had a good restart, but then everybody braked again so I just hit him.”
The stewards indicated they were dissatisfied the collision occured, but said in their statement they could not find an offence to penalise. “Having considered the matter extensively, the stewards determined that car five [Lawson] accelerated very late just before the Safety Car…
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