Perez struggled: 'It wasn't a great qualifying session for me'

Sergio Perez thought a few race weekends ago that he could be in contention for the world title this season, but the Hungarian Grand Prix showed that he is far from it. In fact, he failed to advance past Q2 in qualifying this weekend.

Perez struggled to compete in free practice, finishing sixth, ninth and 20th. The Mexican hoped to do a lot better in qualifying, but that was not to be.

"I had to use a second set of tyres in Q2 because my first lap got deleted for track limits," he recalled in Red Bull Racing's press release. "Then I got my time back but this already impacted our session. It was a bit of a strange situation. When I got going again Kevin [Magnussen] got in my way at turn 2, so I lost a few tenths as I had to go very big through the corner and couldn’t recover for the rest of the lap."

Perez hopes to make up for poor qualifying

As a result, he failed to finish in the top ten and his qualifying ended in Q2. Despite Perez being logically disappointed afterwards, he remains hopeful that he can find the pace on Sunday.

"Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to do much more. It wasn’t a great qualifying for me. I don’t have a great feeling in the car at the moment but tomorrow should be better, we should have better pace and hopefully we are able to recover to score some solid points."