The episode in the finale
“Perez had a horrible weekend”admitted the Red Bull team principal Christian Horner. The horrible weekend will also have consequences in Barcelona, because the Stewards punished Sergio Perez with a three-place penalty to be served on the starting grid at Montmelò.
In fact, at the end of the Canadian GP Perez hit the barriers heavily damaging the rear wing. The Mexican driver managed to regain the way to the pits, but he covered practically half a lap in dangerous conditions to say the least because he could have lost the rear wing on the track.
Checo was sanctioned with three places penalty in Barcelona and Red Bull paid a fine of 25 thousand dollars. The Milton Keynes team admitted that they asked Perez to return to the pits because he wanted to avoid a Safety Car which would have once again called into question Max Verstappen’s leadership. Ultimately, the only useful thing that Perez managed to do in Canada was bring the car back to the garage after contact with the barriers, a ‘feat’ that he will pay off in Spain by dropping three positions on the starting grid.
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