In the final stretch of the 2021 Formula 1 season, the team Red Bull aspires to take the drivers and constructors titles and for the Mexican driver Sergio “Checo” Pérez the priority will be to improve in both classifications and then think about winning on Sunday the Grand Prix of Mexico.
“Today Max (Verstappen) is fighting to win the drivers ‘championship and as a team it is important to support him in that, and we are also fighting for the constructors’ championship against Mercedes,” he said. “Czech” Pérez this Tuesday at a press conference.
With five races remaining in the 2021 serial, the Dutchman Max Verstappen He is the leader in the drivers’ standings with 287.5 points, followed by the British Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes).
In the team table, Mercedes goes first with 460.5 points, followed by Red Bull with 437.5 points, so for the “Czech” Pérez “Every point in these last five races is going to be key.”
Faced with the hypothetical scenario of giving up winning this Sunday in the Grand Prix of Mexico to procure the triumph of VerstappenPérez pointed out that “we should see in what circumstances we are in the race, but at the end of the day we are pilots who work as a team, the main result must be given to the team, we are fighting both the team championship and the drivers championship, that is the big picture “.
On the experience of being a partner of Verstappen, Pérez underlined the quality that the Dutch driver most admires: “The main thing I have learned from Max is how he goes to the limit from Practice 1 to the last lap of the race, I think he is the only driver today who has that ease of being on the edge “.
Dream of triumph at home
In his first season as a pilot for Red Bull -11th in Formula 1-, the Mexican marches in fourth position with 150 points and dreams of winning the Grand Prix of Mexico after five previous attempts in which he has not gone beyond seventh place twice. “It would be incredible, it is the least that my country deserves.”
Regarding your first year in Red Bull, in which he has four podiums (three third places and one first in Azerbaijan), Pérez summarized that “I thought about a faster adaptation, it cost me more work than I thought, I got to a very different car and I’m still in that process, I think we got a bit lost in the middle of the season looking for changes that we couldn’t get, but we have a very good base and a very good pace to fight in the last races. “
“Czech” Pérez, 31, underlined the importance of staying competitive at the end of the season because there are teams that aspire to fight for podiums beyond Mercedes and Red Bull.
“Now we have two or three teams very close to us and if you do not make a very good classification you are out of the top 3 … although we have a great car and we are on par with Mercedes, in the competition with McLaren and Ferrari I think that there are less than two to three tenths, “said Pérez.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx