Christian Horner felt Sergio Perez was “desperately unlucky” to receive a podium-denying time penalty for an illegal overtake at Monza. The Red Bull driver finished third on the road in the Italian Grand Prix behind McLaren duo Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris – with his team-mate Max Verstappen’s car in the kitty litter at the opening chicane following a collision with Lewis Hamilton. Perez, therefore, earned Red Bull their only points of the race, but it was 10 rather than 15 because he was demoted from third to fifth position due to a five-second penalty incurred for passing Charles Leclerc off the track. The move occurred at the second chicane and the Mexican did not give...
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