A Red Bull He only has this season left Sergio Perez be runner-up of the world. Max is champion since the Japanese GP and the Austrian team took over the builders title for the first time since 2013 in the United States GP.
But after what happened in the Brazilian GPwhen Max did not let Pérez pass in the last lapboth the Mexican and charles leclerc is it so tied at 290 pointsbut with the Monegasque ahead for having won more races this season.
After what happened in Brazilrumors began to emerge in the ‘paddock’ in which it was said that the reason why Verstappen did not give up his position to Pérez it was because The Mexican crashed on purpose in Q3 of the Monaco GP to go out ahead of the Dutchman.
The final classification was with the two Ferraris ahead, followed by Pérez third and Verstappen fourth. Now, Pérez has denied this outright.assuring that it was not deliberately crashed.
“Everyone makes mistakes in Monaco”
“You have all the information, you can see the lap. I almost crashed in turn 1, everyone makes mistakes in Monaco in the ranking. And it doesn’t look like it was done on purpose”, Pérez said in the preview of the Abu Dhabi GP.
“I mean, I’m looking for the time to turn around in Monaco. You can review the whole turn and you see that I almost had an accident in turn 1, I was giving it my all, it is the last stint of Q3. What if, mistakes are just madeYou know,” he continues.
“And that’s it. You can see that in Turn 1 I was already playing on the throttle, because that was where I was wasting time back. And I almost lost it there,” she concludes.
Regardless of whether it was on purpose or not, the reality is that no pilot would have improved his time on the last attempt because Fernando Alonso also crashed, which would have caused another Red flag.
What does Pérez need to be runner-up?
The accounts for that ‘Czech’ Perez come out as runner-up Abu Dhabi go through finish ahead of charles leclercregardless of the position since they are tied on points, although the point awarded for the fastest lap could come into play there.
Verstappen has assured that this time, if he can, he will help Pérez to achieve the runner-up, which would make Red Bull He will achieve absolute full in the 2022 season.