“Checo” Pérez upset after his classification: “We did not improve enough”

Sergio “Checo” Pérez’s feeling is that the progress of his RB20 has not been enough after staying in 16th place in the classification for the Las Vegas Grand Prix this Sunday where the Mexican will have a complicated mission in the fight to score points.

The one from Guadalajara was dissatisfied after not having been able to pass Q2 of this Saturday’s session after which the Red Bull driver acknowledged that there have been improvements in his car but that they have not been enough to fully get into the race. He fights something that has been affecting him since April.

“I think we have progressed, without a doubt, but not enough to fight for the first places. The margins are super small and we are not improving enough”considered the man from Guadalajara who is still in the midst of a bad streak of results in 2024 and which he has not yet been able to reverse.

For the Mexican from the Austrian team, the poor classification this Saturday was due to the problems with the RB20 but also to a bad strategy by the energy drink team, a situation that has also been repeated on several occasions throughout the season. of F1.

“I think we also started one or two laps early, which also forced us to do two cool-down laps and we were never able to get the tires up to temperature”commented the man from Guadalajara who on Friday had warned that it would be key to be able to control the tire issue.

“It has been very difficult for me to have grip in the slow and braking corners, it is very complicated. “That is the main problem we have at the moment, that we are skating a lot”’Checo’ Pérez added, explaining the inconveniences he had to deal with during qualifying.

For Sergio “Checo” Pérez, a good part of the responsibility for this situation was due, once again, to a failure in the strategy of the energy drink team, which hopes not to repeat them during this Sunday’s race at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit to try improve the qualy result a little.

“Not having used two new sets of tires I think was a mistake considering the race pace we had”assured the Mexican who considers that at times they had a good rhythm beyond what their classification ended up being.

“What matters is that we are out, tomorrow in race pace we are much better, but in one lap it is difficult for us to get the tire up to temperature”closed ‘Checo’ Pérez who will have practically an impossible mission in trying to repeat the third place achieved in Las Vegas last season.

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