Sergio Perez believes a entrance row begin was inside his grasp after qualifying fourth on the grid for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The Purple Bull driver out-qualified staff mate Max Verstappen for the primary time in 33 rounds in Baku. Perez got here out forward by two tenths of a second and can begin two locations forward of the championship chief.
Nevertheless, regardless of lastly out-qualifying Verstappen for the primary time because the 2023 Miami Grand Prix, Perez says he was not glad together with his grid place.
“To start with, I’m a bit upset,” he instructed the official F1 channel. “As a result of I felt like P2, on an ideal lap, ought to have been potential.
“I had a scrappy sector two, the place I most likely missed a tenth-and-a-half. It’s most likely the identical for everybody although.”
He admitted it could have been tough to match the pole-setting time of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. “Ferrari had been in one other league,” mentioned Perez.
“However I believe additional up would have been good. We’ll see tomorrow. We’re very completely different to everybody else, so we’ll see what we’re in a position to do come tomorrow and see what we’re in a position to obtain.”
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Purple Bull have launched an aggressive new flooring design for this weekend in a bid to regain a few of the floor misplaced to their rivals because the summer time break. Verstappen admitted that he had made a number of set-up adjustments earlier than qualifying that didn’t work out for him, however Perez is assured that his automotive’s set-up ought to enable him to problem his rivals forward within the early phases of Sunday’s race.
“We’ll see tomorrow. I believe undoubtedly on the primary stint, I needs to be sturdy,” he mentioned. “It is going to be all the way down to the quantity of progress that I’m in a position to make.
“From then on, simply head down and hopefully we’re in a position to be as sturdy within the race, that will likely be crucial.”
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