‘I’m still not there with the car yet,’ Sergio Perez after the Spanish GP
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Sergio Perez finished P5 on Sunday in Barcelona after qualifying P8 on Saturday. On paper, Checo made up 3 places which sounds phenomenal but if your teammate is challenging the likes of Lewis Hamilton for the top spot, much more is expected from you.
Perez has been getting himself acclimatized with the Red Bull car but he isn’t anywhere near to the trio of Hamilton, Bottas and Verstappen. He said after the race that he hasn’t completely adjusted himself to the car.
“I think it’s important to keep making those steps and put the whole weekend together,” Perez spoke after the race. “It just takes me too long to get up to speed. When we get to a new circuit on a Friday, I’m like adapting my style. So I’m still not there with the car yet.”
“But you see that things are coming, but not together. But I think once we are able to put them together, definitely we have the pace to be able to go pretty quick. But given how limited track time is, it’s very hard to get up to speed especially with not feeling 100 percent yesterday. Just forget this one and go back again in Monaco.”
Checo was engaged in a tight battle with Ricciardo
Perez made up two places in the start and was then stuck behind McLaren’s Ricciardo for most of the race. He finally made a bold pass on him to finish P5.
“[It] took me a long time to get past Daniel. He was extremely quick on the main straight. And it’s not an easy place to get past people.”
“I knew that I had to do it,” he added of his pass on the Australian around the outside of Turn 1. “Somehow I was thinking pretty much for the whole race ‘How am I going to make it’? But in the end, we managed to make it work.”
The F1 calendar moves to the historic Circuit de Monaco in a couple of weeks. After missing out last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 will be back on the streets of Monaco.
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