With Sergio Perez’s F1 career coming to what seems to be a sudden end, the Mexican driver deserves to be remembered for more than his lacklustre final season.
Sergio Perez has no ‘Plan B’ after Red Bull split
“Today is a total retirement; there is nothing, there is no plan B, there is no plan C; today, at this moment, the Formula 1 page is closing, as it closed before, before arriving at Red Bull,” Perez’s father, Antonio Perez Garibay, claimed last week when speaking to N+ FORO.
Saving the Force India squad and the current Aston Martin F1 workforce
The very next race was the Miami Grand Prix, where Perez capitalised on a Verstappen penalty to take the pole position. But, try as he might, Perez lacked the pace to hold off Verstappen and came out second-best. Epitomising the expression ‘And I took that personally’, Verstappen climbed out of his car the victor and made a point of highlighting the number ‘1’ on his RB19. It was a devastating psychological blow, and Perez never recovered from it.