about Sergio Perez this weekend in Australia was a constant uphill. He suffered in Free Practice 3, was left out at the first changes in qualifying and had to settle for fifth place on Sunday. A poor result for the pace that his Red Bull had.
There were cross statements over the weekend. Pérez complained about the car and Marko Helmut He accused him of “being insecure”, defending that the car had nothing to do with it.
After the race, on ‘F1TV’, the Mexican exploded: “It was a bad weekend, with everything that happened yesterday is unacceptable and I feel like we were in for a good weekend until yesterday.”
“We definitely had the pace to win, but instead it was about damage limitation…” he said. And so he did, finishing fifth behind the Aston Martins of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.
“It was difficult, we didn’t have the pace that we normally have, everyone was closer today. It was a big mess with the DRS train at the beginningI had to take a lot more risk if I wanted to make any more progress and I probably wouldn’t have finished the race,” he said.
He admitted that he lacked aggressiveness, but left happy with his fifth: “If I had been a bit more aggressive earlier, I could have finished in a better position, but I’m happy with my fifth place and the fastest lap in the race.”
Pérez remains second in the championship, although now with a difference of 15 points. Alonso is already behind, only nine points behind with his AMR23.
