The Mexican Czech Perez He rescued the seventh position in the Hungarian Grand Prix by climbing nine positions. With this performance, the driver of Red Bull He was positive and noted that “our time will come.”
The spotlight of critics was on the tapatío this weekendwho crashed during Q1 and had to start from 16th position.
Red Bull and the Mexican mounted hard tyres to start with and, halfway through the race, they put the medium tyre on the car and moved ahead on George Russell’s Mercedes so that, combined with various overtaking moves, he moved up to seventh place.
“There was no safety car and the first lap was difficult with the hard tyre. I couldn’t get through, I was sliding, I was right next to George Russell who had passed me on the first lap,” said Sergio Pérez.
For the Mexican, the key moment was the fitting of the medium tyre almost halfway through the race. “In the end we managed to recover and achieve the maximum result we could today. We had a good pace.”
The Mexican’s situation at the Hungaroring seemed to be promising on Friday when he was within the top five, but the crash in the middle part of Q1 condemned him to come back and put more pressure at a time when there is talk of replacing him, something that took greater force when Red Bull Racing’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko acknowledged on Saturday that the Mexican’s future would be decided after the Belgian Grand Prix.
In view of this, Czech Perez He stressed that despite the result he felt more comfortable with the car. “We had a good Friday, the best Friday of the whole season and that’s what I want to take away from it. I think our time will come because we have had a good pace”
“I think the car was not 100 percent. There are things to analyze. They will be small details that we will have to adjust for Belgium,” he said. the Mexican who has now fallen from sixth to seventh place in the drivers’ championship.
“In the end I made a mistake that could have happened to anyone. It’s a shame that it happened to us at the moment of the season we’re experiencing.”
Next Sunday, July 28, the highest category of motor racing will compete in Belgium the 14th date of the season. The race will be at 7 in the morning downtown Mexico, and it will be a new opportunity for Checo Pérez to achieve the definitive comeback.
Source: Ambito
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