Rain and the GPS issue in FP1 led to struggles to get on top of the day's running for Sergio Perez. AusGP 🇦🇺 F1
Sergio Perez labels FP2 ‘a mess’, says he is going into race ‘blind’Sergio Perez blamed GPS issues for traffic problems during FP2 and suggested he would be going into the race “blind”.
FP1 was riddled with issues as a problem with the track’s GPS meant the red flag was shown as teams were unable to warn the drivers of oncoming traffic or cars behind. The problems were fixed for FP2 but there may have been some gremlins left over with a few instances of heavy traffic build up in certain areas.
Perez was the unlucky victim in such a situation as, following two purple sectors, he was forced to abandon his flying lap when he almost collided with Zhou Guanyu and Fernando Alonso. With rain soon descending onto the Albert Park track, that transpired to be Perez’s only chance to set a quick lap meaning he ended the session P7 but crucially missing important data for the race.“It was a bit mental,” he told Formula1.com. “I think especially going into FP2, it felt like a lot of people still had issues with their GPS data. So it was just a mess. I couldn’t get up a lap in.
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