Sergio Perez mentioned an incident with Charles Leclerc led to his elimination within the first spherical of qualifying for the dash race in Losail.
The Pink Bull driver did not progress to the second stage of qualifying for the second time in every week. He was additionally eradicated in Q1 on the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Perez began his last run at a drawback as he crossed the beginning line alongside Charles Leclerc and needed to overtake the Ferrari as they went into the primary nook. His finest time of 1’22.718 was nearly seven-tenths of a second slower than that of workforce mate Max Verstappen. Perez will begin tomorrow’s race sixteenth, 10 locations behind his workforce mate.
“We left a little bit bit late,” Perez informed the official F1 channel, “we had a difficulty with one of many anti-roll bars.
“Then to get my last lap, we have been all opening laps after which Charles got here and we have been preventing in flip one and so forth, and misplaced a few tenths there, sufficient to be knocked out sadly. It was a disgrace as a result of I felt like we actually progressed with the automobile from FP1 to qualifying. We had much more potential and it’s a disgrace that we simply ended up right here.”
The Pink Bull driver doesn’t anticipate he’ll be capable of salvage any factors from tomorrow’s dash race.
“I feel it’s going to be very troublesome,” he mentioned. “I feel for now we are going to we concentrate on the remainder of the weekend. In such a brief race, I don’t suppose there might be quite a bit that we will do. However we are going to strive.”
Perez has had a poor run of qualifying leads to current races. He began 18th at dwelling in Mexico, thirteenth for the dash race at Interlagos, twelfth for the Brazilian Grand Prix and fifteenth in Las Vegas final weekend.
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