Perez: Clash with Sirotkin looked worse from the outside
Sergio Perez believes his collision with Sergey Sirotkin during the Formula 1♔ Singapore Grand Prix “looked worse from the ou👍tside”.
The Force India 𒀰driver was slapped with a drive-through penalty for claꦡshing with Sirotkin Singapore as the pair battled for position on Lap 27 in Singapore.
Perez accept🌞ed the blame and subsequent penalty for the incident, adding visibility played a role in the coming together after admitting he “lost the reference” point and misjudged the move.
Sergio Perez believes his collision with Sergey Sirotkin during the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix 🥀“looked worse from the outside”.
The 🐲Force India driver was slapped with a drive-through penalty for clashing with Sirotkin Singapore as the pair battled for position on Lap 27 in Singapore.
Perez accepted the blame and subsequent penalty for the incident, adding visibility played a role in th🅰e coming together after admitting he “lost the reference” point and misjudged the move.
“I’ve obviously seen it, and in my opinion, it looks a🐲 lot worse from the outside,” Perez said ahead of th🍒is weekend’s Russian Grand Prix. “With these mirrors, it’s very hard to see behind, so I lost the reference.
“I thoඣught I already did the move on the first corner, and I was speaking on the radio at the point that I saw him, and then I ju🌟st misjudged where he was.
“I was trying to close the door bef🐎ore braking, but he was just too close. It was just my fault. I got the penalty which I think was quite right.
“Nothing to✤ say really other than accepting my mistake.”
The Mexican appeared to turn into✱ the path of Sirotkin but ඣstressed there was no intent behind the collision.
“It’s the way it looked from the outside, but I ruined my race. I wouldn’t have done it o꧟n purpose. That’s it,” Perez explained.
“When you 🐬do something wrong, you have to just accept the criticism andꦦ just look forward.”
Perez explained his radio message during the race where he complained to F1 race director Charlie Whiting about the standard of Sirotkin’s driving, though he does not feel the need to bring up the subject in the next driv♎ers’ briefing on Friday.
“I was complainin🔯g to Charlie because he was moving quite a lot under braking, which is not ideal,” he said.
“It can cause collisions when you’re moving under braking, but I think it was a bit too much movi🌞ng under braking at the time, but that has nothing to do with the incident.
“The incident was not his fault, it was my fault. But he was moving a bit too much under b༒raking.
“I’m cool with him,” Perez added. “I think he did a good race. He defended, as I ⭕said, the only point that I have to make is that he moved a bit too much under braking on a couple of occasions.”
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