Checo Pérez: “car that just doesn’t work for me”

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The Mexican driver complained about his Red Bull with which he never felt comfortable in qualifying in Las Vegas


Czech Perez He was forceful in pointing out that he is not comfortable with the RB20which has caused, in vegassuffers its sixth elimination in classification during Q1 and must start this weekend in sixteenth position.

The Mexican fell short in his quest to access the second round, since his best time was 1:34.115.

Czech He accepted that the problems he has had during practices have hit his confidence, since he cannot focus one hundred percent.

“I think we have a fundamental problem right now with the car that just doesn’t work for me and that’s where everything goes with the brain.”

“You know, to try to fix it instead of compromising and by the time we get to the weekends we just explore a lot of things and it’s hard to make it work,” declared the man from Guadalajara when asked about his elimination.

He noted that everything he has experienced recently is “not ideal,” since “you want to be up there, especially when I know what I can do, but when you don’t have that grip underneath you, then it’s very difficult and you make mistakes.” “many mistakes.”

He stressed that the problems of RB20 have affected its performance with slow corners, but especially with braking.

“Yes, it has been very difficult for me to find grip in slow and braking corners, it is complicated. It is the main problem. We are skating a lot and not using two new sets was also a mistake considering the pace we had. What matters is that we are out and in race pace we are much better, but after one lap it is difficult for us to get the tires up to temperature.”

Before the microphones of AM850 He added that “we have progressed, but not enough to fight for the first places. The margins are super small.”

“We also started one or two laps early and we had to do two cool-down laps and we couldn’t get the tires up to temperature either.”