RED Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner says seeing both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez retire in the closing stages of the Bahrain Grand Prix was the team’s “worst nightmare”.
Verstappen looked locked in to take second place behind Ferrari’s winner Charles Leclerc, while Sergio Perez was holding onto fourth in his fight with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton.
But with two laps to go, Verstappen dramatically slowed and coasted into the pitlane after suffering what he thought were battery problems.
On the final lap, misfortune also struck Perez as his engine seized to Turn 1, which locked the rear axle and put the Mexican into a spin.
It cost Red Bull 30 points, while handing Ferrari a 1-2 and also gifting bitter rival Mercedes more points than it had expected with third and fourth for Hamilton and George Russell.
Horner admitted the late double retirement was “brutal”, calling it a team’s “worst nightmare”.
“I can’t remember the last time
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