If Sergio Perez was looking for a nice calming Friday session to ease into his first 2013 Chinese F1 Grand Prix since moving to McLaren f🎃orm Sauber, then he certainly didn't get it.

The young Mexican was over a second slower than team mate Jenson Button in FP1 and then ended his mor💛ning session in the barriers at pit-lane entry, ironically mimicking his predecessor Lewis Hamilton's famous 2007 race accident, after misjudging his speed while returning after the chequered flag.

He then started the afternoon FP2 session i🌜n the same way as he finished the first, planting his MP4-28 🌼in the tyre wall early in his first run.

"Today was a difficult day for me," he admitted. "I had two offs - in 💎💛the morning, I was running on cold, worn tyres, locked the wheels and just touched the barrier. went into the barrier.

"In FP2, we don't really understand what happened because I wasn't really pushing at the time," he ♓continued. 🔴"Still, I'm sure we will improve tomorrow."

While Perez said that the Friday sessions had been important for the team,▨ he admitted that it was a day he would be happy to put behi💦nd him and forget, and scratch from scratch tomorrow.

"I'll effectively be starting from zero because I'l𒉰l adopt a completely new set-up," he said. "That won't make things easier, but I think we've gathered some useful data today and that will ensure we make good progress for the future."

"It's clearly been an incident-filled day for Checo, but it's all useful learning," contributed McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh. "I'm sure he'll ☂quickly put it behind him and focus on having a stronger day tomorrow."

Perez said that the aim now was to get into the final round of qualifying on Saturday and set himself up for a good run in the ra🍸ce itself on Sunday.

"The target for tomorrow is to get into Q3," he said. "For Sunday, the tyres will play a big role; it'll be esse🎐ntial to manage the degradation and plot the perf𓂃ect strategy, but I know the team is very good in these areas, so I'm optimistic.

"I thﷺink we can have a good result on Sunday," he summed up.