In the chaos of Jeddah, the episode between Sergio passed a little quietly Perez and Charles Leclerc. In the first restart, in fact, the Mexican closed the Ferrari driver against the barriers, having among other things the worst, while the Monegasque was luckily unharmed. The dynamics of the crash then triggered a series of abrupt maneuvers by the other pilots, with Nikita Mazepin hitting George Russell right after the latter had pinned down for the crash between Checo and Charles. Overall result: second red flag. Penalties for Perez: none. In fact, the Stewards did not consider punishing the Mexican’s conduct because “neither of the two pilots was to blame overwhelmingly“, As stated in the federal communiqué.
The Mexican commented on his weekend as follows: “It was not the best weekend for the team, we lost crucial points in the constructors’ championship. now we go to Abu Dhabi to try to turn things around. We were a bit unlucky with the first red flag, but we went well after the restart. We passed Gasly and Leclerc and as I exited the third corner there was not enough room for everyone. I ended up bumping into Charles, he cut my rear tire with his right front. It was a bad and unfortunate time for everyone. It’s a big shame, we needed those points today. I stayed with the car on the track trying to restart the engine. We thought we could restart it but it was a little too hot so we had to retire. It was a very important race for the team today, so this It hurts a lot, but there is hope for Abu Dhabi. There is still optimism and we will give our all in the last race of the season, let’s look ahead“.
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