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A consolation point for Perez in Las Vegas: 'Had the wrong strategy...'
While Max Verstappen stole the show at Red Bull Racing by winning his fourth world championship, Sergio Perez eventually finished in P10 in Las Vegas, after getting eliminated in Q1. Following the Grand Prix, the Mexican said he had hoped for more.
For the sixth time in the 2024 season, Sergio Perez was eliminated from Q1 in Las Vegas. The Mexican started eventually from P15 after Franco Colapinto had to begin from the pit lane, and scored a single point in the 'Sin City'.
"We were not expecting this level of degradation," Perez began to GPblog among others. "We thought starting on the hard will give us opportunity to go very long and then switch for the medium for a very relative short stint, but it wasn't the case. The track was very green in the beginning and we grained the hard which meant that we had to do a very long stint on the medium."
Red Bull's strategy with Perez
The stint Perez ended up doing on the medium became longer than it was planned. As a result, the Mexican pitted for the second time for another set of hard tyres.
"Then going on to the hard, it was just a total disaster unfortunately. But we were not expecting this level of degradation, so it didn't work out the strategy for us."
The RB20 was faster than the P10 shows, Perez said. "We definitely had a lot better pace than where we finished. I don't think we maximised the result, but we got the strategy wrong today unfortunately. I think yesterday we compromised the qualifying with the tires, so we got some work to do to make sure that these things don't happen on our side," 'Checo' concluded.
This article was written in collaboration with Corwin Kunst
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