The Mexican driver dropped to last position in the Austrian Grand Prix race after coming into contact with George Russell on the opening lap of the race.
From the first meters, Sergio Pérez was placed next to the Briton’s Mercedes looking to climb to fourth position in the race, but a contact between the tires of both drivers sent the Red Bull to the gravel and to the last position from which was preserved in the race.
The stewards considered that Russell was guilty of the contact with the Mexican, for which he was penalized with five seconds , which he served in his first pit stop in the Red Bull Ring race.
As Sergio Pérez was at the back of the peloton, the home team tried a curious strategy to benefit the other Milton Keynes car, Max Verstappen’s, who was leading the race ahead of the two Ferraris, Charles Leclerc’s and the by Carlos Sainz. The Austrians tried to give the reigning world champion DRS for a few moments with his teammate acting as a lap, something that is allowed and that does not matter what lap the driver in front is in to open the mobile wing if he is less than a second behind. the detection zone.
Although he was able to help the Dutchman a bit, Checo was quickly overtaken by his rivals, and faced with the difficulties of maintaining a high pace and staging a second comeback in the same weekend after moving from 13th to 5th position in the race At the sprint on Saturday, Red Bull decided to call him to the pits to retire the car.
Thus, the Mexican leaves some valuable points in the Austrian race although it is certain that in the next Grand Prix in France he will want to make up for it.
