Come race day, Perez’s prospects initially regarded promising after gaining three positions on the opening lap. Nevertheless, he was unable to make a lot additional floor from there and ended the day in tenth place, taking only one level within the course of.
Requested afterward if he was upset to not make quicker progress through the Grand Prix, Perez answered: “Sure, I believe additionally the technique, it, whenever you see the place Carlos [Sainz] completed [in P7 from P10 on the grid], in all probability we misplaced a possibility to make extra progress and undercut extra folks.
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“As soon as we had been on an analogous tyre age behind Nico [Hulkenberg], it was… that was just about it.”