“Checo” Pérez celebrates Red Bull's 1-2: “Getting a double in these conditions is a great result”

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The Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), who finished second this Sunday in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix , the fourth in the Formula One World Championship, stated at the Imola circuit (Italy), after achieving his seventeenth podium in the premier class -the second of the season-, that “ getting a double in these conditions is a great result “, in a test that was scored by his Dutch teammate Max Verstappen .

“ At first the fight with (the Monegasque) Charles (Leclerc, from Ferrari, leader of the World Cup) was very intense; it was hard, but we managed to keep the position after overtaking him and then everything was under control“, commented ‘Checo’, born 32 years in Guadalajara (Jalisco) and that, after repeating the second place achieved two weeks in Australia, rose to third place in the World Cup

, that occupies with 55 points, 32 less than the aforementioned Leclerc and five of his partner.

“We have tried to manage the tyre, since today it was about not making mistakes; because in these conditions it was complicated”, commented the brave driver from Guadalajara as soon as he got off his car in Imola, in the official interview at the foot of the track, which was led by the Spaniard Marc Gené.