Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), second in the Formula One World Championship, who He will start fifth today in the Italian Grand Prix, the fourteenth of the year, stated at the Monza circuit, where between the third and last free practice and qualifying he had to change the engine of his RB19, that yesterday “was not a great day”, but that he will do “whatever possible to come back.”
“Today (yesterday) was not a great day. Having to install a new engine and miss a large part of the third free practice was not ideal, because we were not able to run on the new soft tires before qualifying, so we were less prepared (than the rest) for Q3 (the decisive third round of the main timed)”, commented “Checo”.
“In general terms, I don’t think we optimized our performance and showed what we could do,” said the brave driver from Guadalajara, six-time winner in F1 (two of them this year; in Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan) and who aims today to his thirty-fourth podium in the premier class.
“The team, however, did a sensational job turning the car around for qualifying. We had a good Friday and yesterday we had a great race pace, but today we couldn’t capitalize on it in the race,” said the Mexican from Red Bull.
“Looking ahead to the race, I am optimistic, hoping that we can show our great pace; and we will do everything possible to progress through the group,” “Checo” commented from Monza.
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