Sergio Perez picked up three separate time penalties in Qatar, resulting in him scoring just a single point...
Sergio Perez picked up three separate five-second time penalties in Qatar, and has a suspicion as to why he fell foul of the rules.
Having served a five-second penalty at two of his pit-stops, a total of six off-track moments resulted in a total time loss of 15 seconds over the 57-lap race.Having started the race from the pitlane due to a breach of parc ferme regulations as Red Bull changed components in his power unit following his Sprint race collision and retirement, Perez started the race on the hard tyre but couldn’t capitalise on it in the first stint due to the mandatory stint lengths being enforced by the FIA.
Having got stuck behind Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu in the first stint – a car that would usually be easy pickings for a Red Bull – Perez bemoaned the difficulty of getting the grip out of the hard tyre.“We started the race and then the Safety Car for three laps and then, by the time I got through we had to stop. So it wasn’t an ideal race.”
“The track limits, to be honest, it was really hard for me inside the car to judge them. But it was the same for everybody. So I should have done a better job than what I did.
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