‘Checo’ Pérez: It was painful, it was my fault and I feel sorry for the team

‘Checo’ Pérez: It was painful, it was my fault and I feel sorry for the team

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Sports Writing, Jun 18 (EFE) .- The Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), second in the Formula One World Championship, who will start thirteenth this Sunday at the Canadian Grand Prix, the ninth of the year, declared at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit Montreal, after having an accident and being eliminated in Q2 qualifying, that “it was painful”, that it was his “fault” and that he “is” sorry “for the team”.

“I think we had the pace to be much higher on the grid, so today was a painful day. It was my mistake, I made a mistake and I’m sorry for my team, because today I failed them,” he commented this Saturday. Checo’, born 32 years ago in Guadalajara (Jalisco) and who is second in the World Cup, 21 points behind his teammate, the Dutchman Max Verstappen, who will start from pole position this Sunday.

“I was having problems with the brakes, which were cold and I locked up at turn 10 on the previous lap, where I flattened, so that meant I was probably out of shape at turn three. I could have taken things a little easier. , surely, but I was trying to warm up the tires; and, unfortunately, I went over the limit, I blocked and I became a passenger”, explained the Mexican, who has just signed his twentieth podium in F1 in Azerbaijan, where he completed together with Verstappen the third ‘double’ for Red Bull so far this season.

“I’m already looking forward to tomorrow, and I hope we can recover and get into the important points zone. I’m going to attack from the first lap and we’ll see where we end up, because we have a fast car here”, explained ‘Checo’ this Saturday in Canada.