Sergio Pérez’s home race was over after a couple of hundred meters.
Sergio Pérez’s home race ended with the Mexican’s own mistake. PDO
In the calendar, the Mexican GP is always placed on the weekend closest to the Día de Muertos celebration (Day of the Dead).
It’s about the unholy union of Finnish Midsummer and All Saints’ Day.
This year it was also intended to celebrate the republic’s own son, by Sergio Pérezvictory in his home race.
Pérez did nothing to lower expectations. He wanted to swear to believe in his own possibilities.
Or at least nothing else explains why at the start of the race he plunged into the pole man with true kamikaze spirit Charles Leclerc outside.
When Pérez’s teammate Max Verstappen had chosen the inside lane, Leclerc had no other option but to crash into the side of the Mexican.
Red Bull jumped to a height of a couple of meters and came crashing down from there.
An F1 car can’t handle that.
“The space opened”
The race for the hero of the home crowd was over after a couple of hundred meters of acceleration.
– This is a really sad day. I saw that there was an opening for me and I just decided to go for it, Pérez recently said in an interview with Viaplay.
It is true that there was room outside Leclerc. But it was gone when the track turned right. Pérez, who drove at the Hermanos Rodríguez circuit his age, should have remembered.
The Mexican’s ball as Red Bull’s second driver is swinging now more than ever before. Sports Director Helmut Marko has emphasized that Pérez has to take home the second place in the World Series.
Red Bull has never had a double victory in the drivers’ series. If Pérez eats it now, he will definitely have to look for work somewhere else.
– I got a great start, and I saw the gap. I didn’t expect Charles to brake so late because he had so much less space, Pérez continued.
F1 drivers traditionally do not give way to each other. And Pérez shouldn’t have counted on it anyway.
– Three cars side by side is of course a very difficult situation. We tried everything.
The interruption goes all the way to Pérez. He made the choice to get on the outside as the third car.
– Now in retrospect I understand that I was too optimistic. I’ve been here on the podium twice in a row, and now I wanted to win. I had a chance to do that.
– If the overtaking had been successful, the story would have been different.
Día de Muertos is a celebration of joy, even though it commemorates the dead. However, Pérez did his best to change the mood of the day.
– I am really sad about what happened. A really bad place in the home race.
Pérez is still second in the World Series. However, third place Lewis Hamilton is only 20 points (240–220) away.
It would be foolish to bet against the Brit.