Perez can avoid major grid penalty after heavy Baku crash
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After his fight to step on the podium in Baku resulted in a crash with Carlos Sainz, Red Bull were stressing about how much does this collision penalise Sergio Perez also at the Singapore Grand Prix. Luckily for the Mexican, a grid penalty is out of question in the Asian country following his DNF in Azerbaijan.
A grid penalty could have been a costly one in Singapore where it is not the easiest to overtake, but luckily for Perez, he could declared that his power unit and gearbox were both OK to run with. The Mexican also got bodyparts in time, so his car will also have their latest specfications at the street circuit. "The boys, as usual, have done a tremendous job and we are on the latest spec. So, yeah, very surprised with it. The team is pushing flat out and I wasn't expecting it to be on the latest spec and by the looks of it, I am," said 'Checo' in Singapore.
Everything sorted between Perez and Sainz
Perez is yet to step on the podium since this year's Chinese Grand Prix, as only a third place in the Miami Sprint has followed since then for the Mexican. However, he underlined that he could sort things out with the Ferrari driver following the incident.
"I think it was just the wrong moves at the wrong time. I think in the end it's just irrelevant at the moment who is to blame. I think in the end we both ended up with zero points, damaging our teams a lot. And it's something that we were having a chat, and we were thinking like, (...) especially with Charles struggling so much there in the end, we both should have been on the podium," he concluded.
This article was written in collaboration with Corwin Kunst
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