The Mexican driver Sergio Pérez will play his eleventh season in Formula 1 in 2022, the second with Red Bull after a long period of seven years with Force India / Racing Point after a difficult time at McLaren.
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Checo Pérez’s career in Formula 1: 11 seasons, 187 points, 10 podiums and 1 victory
Checo Pérez’s 2011 in F1
Sergio Pérez contested 17 races with Sauber in his first season in Formula 1 . In his debut he had scored points by finishing in seventh place, but was disqualified in the hours that followed. At the end of the year, Checo had 14 points and was 16th in the championship.
Checo Pérez’s 2012 in F1
Still as a Ferrari Academy driver , Sauber ‘s single-seater (with an Italian engine) that year was the most successful in its entire history. Sergio Pérez achieved three podiums with him, his most in a season, getting second places in Malaysia and Italy, and a third place in Canada. It was his first top 10 finish in a drivers’ championship, 10th with 66 points.
Checo Pérez’s 2013 in F1
His move to McLaren was a dream that gradually turned into a nightmare. With a car powered by the latest Mercedes V8 engine, Pérez managed just 49 points, finishing eleventh in the drivers’ table, getting into the top ten on 11 occasions.
Checo Pérez’s 2014 in F1
After a difficult stint at McLaren (where they only kept him for a year), Sergio Pérez found a place at the last minute at Force India, Vijay Mallya ‘s team. Under the direction of Andrew Green , and with the new Mercedes V6 turbo hybrid engine, the Mexican achieved a podium finish in Bahrain in just his third race. In the end he got 59 points that were enough to be tenth in the drivers’ world championship.
Checo Pérez’s 2015 in F1
During the 2015 season, Force India used two single-seaters. The first, the VJM08 , was present in Australia, Malaysia, China, Bahrain, Spain, Monaco, Canada, and Austria. In that period Checo added points in four races.
Starting with the British Grand Prix, the team presented a major evolution of the car. With that update, Pérez scored points in eight of 11 races, including a podium finish (third) in Russia. With that he rose to the ninth step of the drivers’ championship, his best position to date.
Checo Pérez’s 2016 in F1
The 2016 season got off to a rocky start, with three races outside the top 10 for the Mexican. But after scoring points in Russia and Spain, he achieved a podium finish by being third in Monaco and another in Azerbaijan , which was making its debut as a European Grand Prix that year. At the end of the course, he was seventh in the championship, surpassing 100 points for the first time (101).
Checo Pérez’s 2017 in F1
That of 2017 was a competitive single-seater and in the first five races of the year Pérez scored points. Although he did not get a podium finish that year, the car allowed Checo to be constant and score in 17 of 20 races, once again reaching 100 points and being ‘the best of the rest’ (seventh) in the world championship.
Checo Pérez’s 2018 in F1
A complicated course in 2018 for Sergio Pérez. At first the team was still called Force India, but due to economic problems it went into bankruptcy proceedings, passing into the hands of a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll from the Belgian GP, calling itself Racing Point. Despite the turbulent environment, he finished eighth with 62 points.
Checo Pérez’s 2019 in F1
It was the first full season under the Racing Point name, but due to the delayed development of the car from the previous year, Pérez was slow to find a rhythm. While in the first 12 races he only scored three points, from Belgium he reached the top 10 in eight of nine grands prix, coming back to finish in the top 10 of the championship.
Checo Pérez’s 2020 in F1
2020 was the best season for Pérez, even though it started in the worst way. Before starting the World Cup, he learned that his team was breaking its three-year contract and was left without a place on the grid. He started regularly and suffered from the coronavirus, but recovered to make brilliant races, add a podium and achieve his first victory in Formula 1.
Those great performances led him to finish fourth in the world championship (his best result, with 125 points) to win one of the most sought-after seats on the grid for 2021, that of Red Bull.
Checo Pérez’s 2021 in F1
In his first year with the energy drink team, the Mexican struggled to adjust, spending much of the course trying to find the balance of the RB16B. However, in Baku he took his second victory in the Great Circus, and at the end of the season he brought out the best version of himself and added several consecutive podium finishes, as well as helping to achieve the team’s objective.
At the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix he starred in a legendary performance, which led to Max Verstappen rejoining the fight for the title, which he finally achieved on the last lap of the race, after overtaking Lewis Hamilton. Thus, the one from Guadalajara signed a fourth place in the general with 190 points.
