Last year, these days, Sergio Perez ended an incredible season with Racing Point. The Mexican in 2020 went from having an extraordinary season, to the risk of having to leave F1 forever, to finding his first career victory and – finally – landing in Red Bull. His signing with the Milton Keynes team put him in a position to compete for the first time in his career in a top team, but this year a disappointing first half of the championship immediately cut him off from any world championship dreams. In the last few races, however, Perez has risen in level, especially in the race, managing to contribute more to the cause of the Austrian team.
Its three thirds and two fourth places in the last five races have helped Red Bull narrow its gap to Mercedes in the constructors’ standings. Now – with a gap of only five points – Checo’s task between Gedda and Abu Dhabi will be to try to help Max Verstappen in his fight against Lewis Hamilton and at the same time conquer other important points for the ‘team championship’. In this sense, his ‘direct’ challenge will be with the second guide of the silver arrows, Valtteri Bottas. “Helping the team to take the constructors’ title would be huge for me, that would be very special indeed – commented the Mexican driver, speaking at a press conference in Jeddah – it’s nice to have this fight, we have to do our best and then we’ll see where we end up “.
“There is still everything up for grabs and for this reason the last two races are very important for the team – added the Mexican again – it will be exciting to fight with Mercedes. We hope to finish in front of them. We prepared as best we could. It’s nice to find us battling like this at this stage of the season“. Finally, the native of Guadalajara expressed confidence in the reliability of his car, after the many problems suffered by the RB16B on therear wing in the last triptych of competitions: “The matter is under control, we have no problems – concluded Perez – we have several wings at our disposal“.
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