“It was a really difficult day out there, and everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong,” Perez stated in an interview with Formula1.com. “Really, really sad with the performance, but not just today, basically from yesterday with my mistake. We knew that this was the price that we were going to pay.”
Having secured two hard-fought victories earlier in the season alongside Verstappen, Perez had been firmly in contention in the Drivers’ Championship, with the Red Bull car proving to be the class of the field.
