Perez: Rumors about the future “couldn’t interest me less”

(Motorsport-Complete.com) – “If I am sincere, I could not care much less,” says Sergio Perez concerning the rumors about his future at Purple Bull. The Mexican is experiencing a troublesome Formulation 1 season in 2023 and got here to Silverstone not in Q3 for the fifth straight season, whereas teammate Max Verstappen received each race in the identical interval.

The hypothesis was nourished yesterday with the Driver swap at AlphaTauri, the place the hapless Nyck de Vries shall be changed by Daniel Ricciardo. The Australian is taken into account a doable different to Perez ought to he be capable to persuade AlphaTauri once more.

However Perez emphasizes: “I have been in Formulation 1 for 13 years and I’ve seen every little thing. I am not nervous about that. My predominant focus is on ending my season and ensuring I proceed to get pleasure from it.”

This week Perez is visiting the Milton Keynes manufacturing facility to work on some points. He is going via a troublesome patch and is now 99 factors behind teammate Verstappen after failing to impress prior to now 5 days of qualifying and by no means making a prime 10.

“I feel it is simply the quantity of element,” he says. “In the previous couple of races I have been a bit extra delicate with the automobile, particularly on Saturday once I was operating low on gasoline. That is one thing I will be engaged on with the group within the simulator.”

Perez emphasizes: The tempo is there

“And we have now some concepts. However we function in such a small window of particulars. We simply want a robust Saturday,” mentioned Perez. “And the constructive factor is that the tempo is there on Sunday, the place the factors are awarded on the finish of the day. However we simply should type ourselves out and have a clear weekend as a result of the tempo is there.”

Perez’s drawback was that the majority Saturdays have just lately been in changeable circumstances, the place, in keeping with him, it is all concerning the little issues. “So I am not too nervous, I feel we had an amazing Friday [in Silverstone]so far as tempo goes. We simply should get qualifying below management after which it would work out.”

Whereas he admits he is had a few unhealthy weekends now, “on the finish of the day it is all about the place we end in Abu Dhabi. So it is nonetheless an extended season and I actually imagine I will end my season can get it below management once more.”

Troublesome catch-up race at Silverstone

At Silverstone, the Purple Bull driver had already retired in Q1, however was in a position to enhance to sixth place within the race. Perez commonly will get reward from his group for his performances in races, however regardless of the race to catch up in Nice Britain, he says Sunday was comparatively troublesome for him: “Nothing labored,” he quibbles.

“I had an amazing begin however then on the primary lap I acquired misplaced by [Esteban] Ocon was pushed apart and I misplaced positions as a substitute of gaining them. That made it much more troublesome to catch up,” mentioned Perez, who was solely sixteenth after the primary lap.

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Lance Stroll (5): The Aston Martin was not good this weekend but the teammate showed that points were still possible. Instead, he retired in Q2 on Saturday and crashed in Gasly in the race, for which he was rightly punished. That was nothing.

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“I put an excessive amount of pressure on my tires on the primary stint. After which we got here into the pits, I feel three laps earlier than the security automobile. So it wasn’t meant to be. However in the long run we gave every little thing and did what we might might.”

“It was very, very troublesome to rise up entrance. Particularly on the finish, when everybody has the identical tire age and there’s no longer a tire delta, it was actually troublesome to maneuver ahead,” he says. “It is fairly troublesome to observe at excessive velocity.”

Within the meantime he had one other collision wherein he collided with Nico Hulkenberg, who wanted a brand new entrance wing. “I used to be fortunate that I did not get a puncture.”