Sergio Perez insists strain will not be enjoying an element in his ongoing poor kind after spinning out of qualifying and beginning on the again row on the British Grand Prix.
Pierre Gasly’s energy unit penalty is the one purpose Perez will not be beginning final at Silverstone after he spun off at Copse on slick tires on a drying monitor in Q1. Perez strains up nineteenth and has scored simply 15 factors throughout the previous 5 rounds — together with dash races — however says he isn’t feeling additional strain regardless of workforce principal Christian Horner having referred to as for extra from his driver.
“No, no no no — that has nothing to do with it,” Perez mentioned. “I’m absolutely centered on my job, I’m absolutely centered on getting the efficiency out of myself. I do know the place I could be, yesterday we had a really optimistic day, issues had been trying in the suitable route. So head down and it’s a matter of time earlier than we flip across the state of affairs.
“I’m absolutely dedicated to the workforce, I’m absolutely dedicated to my profession. I’ve a contract with the workforce and I’ll flip issues round. It’s not one thing that distracts me or something like that, it’s one thing that … I wish to get again to my kind and concentrate on vital issues.”
Explaining the incident that ended his qualifying session prematurely, Perez says he felt he was unfortunate because of the situations on his out lap on slick tires.
“Flip 9 was tough, actually troublesome, particularly to start with,” he mentioned. “As I used to be making an attempt to heat up the tires going into Flip 9, after I downshifted I principally misplaced the rear finish fairly badly and I went out of the monitor. And chilly tires and it was fully soaked of water outdoors of the monitor, so I simply ended up going within the gravel, couldn’t cease the automotive, couldn’t go straight… A really unlucky incident.
“It appeared to be fairly moist on the entry and on the white line it was fairly slippery; sadly I used to be the primary one in all probability to undergo on chilly tires, slick tires, so all the pieces mixed was the outcome. I believe individuals in all probability went out 20 minutes after and nonetheless it was a tough nook,” however anyway, I put my hand up as a result of I f****d up at this time, and tomorrow is a brand new day.”
Perez begins nineteenth and is assured he can climb by means of the sector however says it is not going to be a decisive outcome even when he doesn’t make it again into the factors.
“I believe the weekend has been very sturdy to this point. Let’s take the positives,” he mentioned. “Tomorrow shall be a protracted, troublesome race; if I’m in a position to rating some good factors, good on that, but it surely’s a protracted yr, I’ve been on this enterprise for lengthy sufficient so I do know precisely what to do and the best way to flip issues round, and I cannot hand over, I’ll flip this one round.
“It’s going to be robust battles, particularly to return by means of the sector, with a really tight discipline as it’s now, however we’ll see, we’ll give it our easiest tomorrow.”
