Christian Horner after Monaco GP: 'We rolled the dice'

Published on 25 May 2025 by Coen Versteeg

Christian Horner, CEO and team principal of Oracle Red Bull Racing, said the following after the Monaco Grand Prix: "We rolled the dice today. It didn’t work and our best chance was a safety car or a red flag or VSC as you’re never going to overtake on track here. We went long with Max and he led a lot of the laps today but ultimately had to take that final stop. For Yuki we did the inverse, and pitted him on lap one, initially it looked like he would get significant benefit from it but then everyone started to drive extremely slowly, as they started playing around with their tactics. He was basically on the same set of tyres for the whole race and did his fastest laps at the end there when he finally got some clear air but it was done by then; an extremely difficult for him today. So, damage limitation today. We have only given away three points to Oscar, the Championship leader and we go into Barcelona within a race win and that was the target to hit this regulation change."