Sergio Pérez

The Mexican was signed by the Milton Keynes-based team as replacement for Alex Albon this year, with the outfit believing it needed a stronger line-up to bolster its world championship chances.<br>Although Perez had some difficulty early on in adapting to the characteristics of the Red Bull car, especially in qualifying, he has made great progress and took victory in last weekend's Azerbaijan ...

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Red Bull opted to drop Albon after just one full season with the team after a difficult 2020 campaign, moving him into a test and reserve role as Perez took his seat.<br>Perez scored his maiden victory for Red Bull in last Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, becoming the team’s first new winner since Max Verstappen’s debut in 2016. The win for Perez helped extend Red Bull’s lead over Mercedes ...

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Perez scored his second F1 win on Sunday in Baku after teammate Max Verstappen suffered a late tyre failure while heading up a 1-2 for Red Bull.<br>Perez had displayed impressive pace throughout the race weekend in Baku, leading FP2 and finishing second in FP3 before traffic in Q3 left him sixth on the grid.<br>He was then able to fight his way through to second place in the race, jumping Lewis ...

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Red Bull’s Verstappen was cruising to victory with three laps remaining when his left-rear tyre blew, in similar fashion to Lance Stroll’s earlier incident which caused his Aston Martin to crash violently. The race was red-flagged, allowing the track to be cleared and all cars were able to change tyres.<br>From a standing start, for the final two laps, Perez was beaten off the ...

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After qualifying sixth on Saturday, Perez was able to battle through to third place before pitting, where he managed to jump ahead of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.<br>Red Bull looked set for a 1-2 finish before leader Verstappen suffered a tyre failure with four laps to go, causing the race to be red-flagged.<br>It set up a two-lap sprint finish with a standing restart, but Perez was able to ...

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Verstappen's incident led to a red flag with three laps remaining, which became a two-tour shootout following a second standing start, where Hamilton challenged Perez for the lead at the first corner.<br>The Mercedes driver's brakes were smoking heavily ahead of the second start, but he made the better getaway from the front row and was ahead of Perez as they braked for Turn 1.<br>But Hamilton's ...

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Perez entered qualifying with the fastest time of the race weekend so far, and appeared to be in the mix for pole position after taking second place for Red Bull in Q2.<br>But Perez slipped to seventh with his first lap in Q3, lapping 0.699 seconds slower than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and almost three-tenths off his best time in Q2.<br>A red flag caused by Yuki Tsunoda’s crash brought Q3 to ...

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Both Friday practice sessions have each been cut to one hour in 2021, instead of the usual 90 minutes each.<br>FP1 was topped by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, while teammate Perez was fastest in FP2 – as title rivals Mercedes seriously struggled for pace and languished outside of the top 10 in the overall times.<br><br>Read Also:<br><br>Perez says he "finally understands" Red Bull's F1 ...

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Perez joined Red Bull for 2021 after his exit from Racing Point, and anticipated it would take him around four or five races to get up to speed with the team's car.<br>A difficult Monaco qualifying was made up for in the race when he recovered to finish fourth, but Perez hit new heights in Baku on Friday as he led second practice for Red Bull.<br>A time of 1m42.115s gave Perez top spot ahead of ...

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The Mercedes drivers – led by Lewis Hamilton in 11th – finished well down the order as the world champion squad's low-key start to the Baku weekend continued.<br>The one-hour session was interrupted by a red flag caused by Nicholas Latifi's Williams losing power towards the end of the opening quarter and by a virtual safety car, which was triggered when Charles Leclerc knocked the front wing ...

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Following his exit from Racing Point at the end of last year, one-time grand prix winner Perez linked up with Red Bull for 2021, replacing Alexander Albon on a one-year deal.<br>Perez is yet to score a podium for Red Bull and has picked up less than half as many points as teammate Max Verstappen, who leads the drivers' world championship after five races.<br>But the Mexican driver has helped Red ...

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It was a superb performance from the Mexican, who managed his tyres in the opening laps and, after going long, was able to deploy sufficient pace to jump three cars after his pitstop.<br>However, it was also a question of what might have been had he qualified closer to teammate Max Verstappen, rather than seven places behind the Dutchman.<br>Qualifying remains an Achilles Heel for Perez in 2021 as ...

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On Saturday Norris had qualified fifth, which became fourth on the grid when Ferrari's polesitter Charles Leclerc failed to make the start.<br>Norris chased after the remaining Ferrari of Carlos Sainz in the first stint, but then started to fade in the second stint on hard tyres.<br>Due to Valtteri Bottas retiring following a Mercedes pitstop mishap, Norris' fourth position became third, with the ...

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According to local media in Mexico, an incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning in Guadalajara - Perez’s home city - that saw robbers attempt to seize a vehicle.<br>A bodyguard of Antonio Perez, the brother of Sergio, was wounded by a gunshot after responding to the robbery attempt of a Jeep Wrangler. It is not confirmed if Perez’s brother was in the vehicle.<br>“One of the ...

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The Mexican has had a mixed start to his Red Bull career. While he claimed a front row start for the team at Imola, he has had more recent struggles in the races to match teammate Max Verstappen.<br>But after a disappointing Spanish Grand Prix outing, where Perez’s form was hit by a shoulder problem in qualifying, team boss Christian Horner said that his outfit ‘desperately needed’ the ...

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Williams' George Russell was the first car out on the sunny streets of the principality, which traditionally open on Thursday for F1 practice.<br>Sainz was first to set a reasonable laptime of 1m16.241s mediums in the Ferrari.<br>World champion Lewis Hamilton quickly bested Sainz's time in the Mercedes with a 1m15.858s, before Sainz struck back with a 1m14.457s aboard the SF-21.<br>Sainz's Ferrari ...

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Perez joined Red Bull for the 2021 season following his exit from Racing Point at the end of last year, having claimed his maiden grand prix victory at the Sakhir Grand Prix.<br>The Mexican has struggled to match teammate Max Verstappen's form through the early part of the year, but anticipated an adjustment period with limited track time at a new team.<br>Marko has been one of the most ...

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Perez was signed by Red Bull to partner Max Verstappen for this season after his exit from Racing Point, becoming the fourth different driver in the team’s second seat in as many years.<br>Perez said before the season began that he expected to take four or five races to get up to speed, and has scored less than half as many points as Verstappen so far. A difficult weekend in Spain saw Perez ...

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Max Verstappen led much of last weekend's Spanish Grand Prix from Lewis Hamilton, but his Mercedes rival had enough of a gap behind him to switch to a two-stop strategy without losing track position to another team.<br>The tyre advantage Hamilton gained from the fresh rubber was enough to allow him to close the gap and eventually overhaul Verstappen for the win.<br>Red Bull is under no illusions ...

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Perez slumped to eighth place in Q3 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Saturday, finishing nine tenths of a second behind Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen, who qualified P2.<br>But Perez revealed after qualifying that he had been struggling with a shoulder issue throughout the session, contributing to his difficulties.<br>"It was a bit of a struggle, I didn't feel 100% with myself today," ...

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The Mexican has faced a tough challenge in adapting to the unique characteristics of Red Bull's high-rake concept, having moved across from Racing Point at the end of last year.<br>With limited pre-season mileage, Perez braced himself for needing time to get up to speed, and quickly realised that it would be futile so early in the campaign to try to get the car changed to suit him better.<br>"I'm ...

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Mazepin was handed a five-second time penalty for having impeded then race leader Perez as he came up to lap him, with the pair nearly colliding at Turn 3.<br>The Russian had just emerged from the pits in front of Perez, and didn't spot the Red Bull driver close up behind him. Perez had to take evasive action after Mazepin turned in on him, and the Mexican feared that he had actually hit the Haas ...

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Perez was running fourth in the early stages of the Portimao race but did not follow the same strategy as the three cars ahead of him when it came to the timing of his stop.<br>While teammate Max Verstappen was pitted on lap 35 in a bid to try to jump the Mercedes duo he was fighting, Perez was kept out much longer in the lead of the race.<br>Despite being much slower than the cars on fresh ...

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In his third qualifying outing for Red Bull, Perez finished fourth in Q3 at Portimao and just 0.144s off teammate Max Verstappen in third place.<br>But the Mexican driver reported similar struggles to Verstappen after qualifying, encountering a lack of balance on the low-grip Portimao surface, highlighted by a spin at Turn 4 in Q1.<br>Perez explained after qualifying that he was not happy with the ...

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The Mexican had qualified on the front row at Imola, but his hopes of a good finish were wrecked by a spate of incidents in the tricky conditions.<br>He spun early on behind the safety car, and was then handed a 10-second stop/go penalty for overtaking rivals as he regained his original position.<br>Later on in the race after the red flag restart, he spun once again – dropping him well ...

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