“I can’t believe what I’ve done” - Sergio Perez reacts to latest qualifying blunder
Perez is set to start the race in Monte Carlo from 20th on the grid aꦇfter a shunt at ♌Sainte Devote put him out of qualifying.
It’s the second high-profile mistake Perez has made in F1 2023 having crashed in Q1 in Australia.
“It’s an unbelievable day,” Perez said💃 after qualify🍨ing. “I cannot believe what I’ve done.
“It just caught me by surprise. Just getting the rear out of shape - especially really late into the corner, that really caught me ou𒈔t.
“It’s the way we were trying to get the lap time out of it, but it just wen🧔t over the limit and I became a passenger. There was nothing else I could do, because it was really late in the corner and I could not cut the corner or go out of the corner.”
“It came around as a big surprise,”🎃 he added. “But saying that is not an excuse - I should have done better today.”
With overtaking so difficult in the principa♐🎀lity, Perez described his prospects for the grand prix as an “impossible race”.
“All I can say is very sorry to my team because you put so much energy, so much work, preparing everyt꧑hing and then you just disappoint everyone like this – i꧙t’s not fair to my team.
“So I’m super-disappointed today with myself and I know that tomorrow it’s going to be 🌠an impossible race.”
Team boss Christian Horner revealed that𒀰 Perez might be forced into a change of chassis “as a precaution” meaning he could be starting from the pit lane on Sunday.
"Unfortunately, [Perez made] a mistake too early in Q🧜1,” Horner sa༺id.
"I can only think that maybe he was distracted by the Alpine on the right-hand side because he just misjudged that first turn and the c😼ircuit was only going t𝔉o get faster and faster, so he will be kicking himself for that."
"We might have to change the whole lot, the chassis, just as a precaution.It is so h༒ard. Max started from that position a few years ago and on🔯ly just made it into the top 10.
"Scoring poiꦿnts will be the target because it is likely to be a one-stop race, you are caught in the crocodile and you can't use your pace."
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