Checo Pérez, at the top in his best year in F1

After 11 years and five teams, Sergio “Checo” Pérez got his best year in the Formula 1, confirming his figure as a world reference in motorsports and with figures that increased substantially compared to 2020 that, by itself, had been highlighted for the Mexican.

After the closing of the 2021 season, Pérez repeated the fourth place of the Drivers Championship he had won in 2020, but this time he did so with 190 points, compared to 125 he achieved last year. He stayed 36 away from Valtteri Bottas in the fight for a third place that would have been unprecedented, but still his contribution was a bulwark for the team Red Bull.

“I am very happy for the whole team in general. We have been very unlucky at crucial moments, with many races that we did not finish. As a person or driver you don’t want to harm someone in a World Championship, but in the end it was what I did for my team and Hamilton will understand it well, because I did everything more than for Max, for my team, ”Pérez said at the close of the circuit in Abu Dabi, where he competed face to face with Lewis Hamilton in the final moments as long as his teammate, Max Verstappen, took the title.

The best year of Checo Pérez Construction began since June, when the Jalisco man achieved the second triumph of his career by winning first place in Azerbaijan during matchday 6. A few more podiums would join in France, Turkey, the United States and Mexico City to close the year with five in total, being that his best mark had been three in 2012.

“Starting from scratch this year we have managed to have a super united team, with that I can be very happy. I think that next year will be defined. I think I can measure up. I have had good progress and starting from scratch I can have the best opportunity and hoping to have a car as competitive as this year “, he mentioned regarding the end of 2021 and what he envisions for 2022.

On this year’s podium list, Pérez finished fourth behind Verstappen who had 18; Hamilton with 17; and Bottas with 11, but beating promising youngsters like Carlos Sáinz and Lando Norris, who were left with four. In addition, the Mexican finished in the top 5 in 13 of the 22 circuits that were run, only having to retire in another three.

But his most important mission was to collaborate in any way with his team to prevent Lewis Hamilton from overtaking Max Verstappen especially in the last and final circuit in the United Arab Emirates: “In the end I was able to help Max and it is important. Those 10 seconds that I lost Hamilton made the race, because it was all the windows. If Hamilton hadn’t helped, I would have stopped calmly and the race would have been relatively easy.

Checo Pérez has finished two consecutive years in fourth place in the Pilots’ World Championship For the first time in his career in Formula 1, in 2019 he was tenth place and before that his best results were seventh places in 2016 and 2017, when he was part of the Force India team, being the first times he achieved a hundred points ( 101 and 100, respectively).

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