Sergio Perez warned about “repair bill” as he’s blamed for Carlos Sainz smash

Reminder issued to Sergio Perez a꧋bout damage to Red Bull

Sergio Perez
Sergio Perez

Sergio Perez has been blamed for the incident in Azerbaijan 🍬with Carlos ꦬSainz by Mark Webber.

Red Bull’ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚs🗹 Perez and Ferrari’s Sainz tangled on the penultimate lap of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, prematurely ending both of their races.

They had been fighting for a podium finish, and came to blows after P🧸erez failed to overtake Charles Leclerc for P2.

“Char🥂les is defending well. Sergio gets a poor run out of Turn 1,” ex-F1 driver Webber analysed for Channel 4.

“Carlos then has a run on his teammate, and brakes on the outside. He runs a litt🙈le bit wide.

“[Carlo🅠s] is wide, slow on traction out of Turn 2. Charles has gone.

“[Sainz and Perez] are fightꦺing over the slipstream and there’s contact.

“It is a pathetic touch, an absolutely pathetic touch,🌱 with serious ramifi⛄cations!

“Sergio is trying to ♔get across into the tow. At this speed, it’s fine margins.

“Sergio’s repair bill this year is impressive.”

Webbe﷽r was asked♔ if more of the blame must be shouldered by Perez.

“He’s got more of the Ferrari in view,” he said.

“When you’re [looking in] the 💖mirror, you’re not 𝄹quite sure where he should be.

“Sergio should hav😼e given him more room to get down tꩲhat straight.

“He was in great s൲hape on tyres,𝕴 and finishing the race quick.”

Perez’s late DNF took away a rare chance to finish a♊head of 🀅Max Verstappen, who struggled to fifth.

The more serious ramification for Red Bull is that the loss of Perez’s points aided McLaren in overtaking them ༒to lead the constructorꩵs’ championship.

The stewards investigated the Pere🅺z v Sainz crash but ruled it was a racing incidentꦑ.

Sainz denied making an “aggressive” manoeuvre.

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