![]() ![]() We maximised today’s race.”ĭRIVER OF THE DAY: Gritty one-stop drive gets Vettel your vote ![]() I think we were one of the few to make it work. “It was quite tough to do the one-stop out there. “At least it didn’t cost us for a team result, because Lance got those points,” said Perez. The silver lining to that cloud was that it was his team mate who inherited his fourth place rather than anyone else, and with Perez outpacing the McLaren of Carlos Sainz to claim fifth, Racing Point still came away with their best haul of points for the year so far – 22 for a P4 and a P5. But then the final sector is very narrow, so I thought it was quite dangerous to give the position there, so I waited until Turn 1 and then I got the penalty.” “I got told out of Turn 9, and when I looked in the mirrors, I saw that it was hard to give him the place into Turn 10. “I’m obviously very disappointed with the penalty because I thought that it was really unfair,” he said. READ MORE: Dominant Hamilton eases to fifth Spanish GP win as Verstappen splits Mercedesīut Perez knew that it wouldn’t last, after he was handed the blue flag penalty mid-race, having been deemed to have impeded the progress of eventual winner Lewis Hamilton – somewhat unfairly, according to Perez himself… Perez executed a typically well-managed one-stop strategy at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to finish the race in the fourth position he’d started it in, a couple of seconds up the road from his two-stopping team mate Lance Stroll. ![]() But that fourth became fifth, as the Mexican was handed a five-second penalty form the stewards for ignoring blue flags. ![]() Racing Point’s Sergio Perez may have finished fourth on the road at the Spanish Grand Prix, his first race back since Covid-19 ruled him out of two races at Silverstone. ![]()
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