Sainz thinks Perez could have avoided him: 'He had plenty of room'

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Carlos Sainz finds himself not guilty of incident with perez in baku
15 September at 15:57
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  • Sandy van Wijngaarden

Just before the end of the race, Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz crashed together. Christian Horner blamed Sainz for the crash. The Spaniard himself feels there was nothing else he could have done.

A good result was on the cards for Sainz and Perez until they crashed. Both drivers were unable to continue and the race ended under a virtual safety car. Sainz was asked by various media including GPblog for his view on the incident.

"Big accident. Unfortunately, I hit the barrier straight on the concrete wall. I was coming very quickly behind Charles and Checo. I had saved my tyres well. I moved over to Checo when he was fighting Charles," Sainz analysed.

Sainz finds himself not guilty of the Baku crash

According to the Spaniard, he is not to blame. "Then I think we exited turn two, I did my normal racing line, I didn't do any strange manoeuvre or anything, and for some reason that I still don't understand, we collided."

"I think he [Checo] had plenty of space to lift. I didn't do any strange movement. But I guess that's racing. Sometimes you do 48 laps without doing anything, and then you get to two laps, three laps to go and things like this happen," Sainz said.

Asked by GPblog if the two had spoken to each other yet, Sainz said the following: "Yeah, we spoke. We hadn't seen the incident when we spoke. We will see it now at the stewards."

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