F1 Gossip: Perez's Imola GP performance “more than annoying” - Marko

In the latest F1 gossip column, Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko was unhappy with Sergio Perez's race performance at Imola after he failed to covert his front-row starting position into a podium finish.
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing.
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing.
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- Red Bull F1 consultant Helmut Marko was left🍎 disappointed by Sergio Perez's race-day performance at Imola after he failed to convert his front-row starting position into a podium finish.

Perez was running in fourth before spinning out, ultimately finishing the race just outside of the points🔯 in 11🎶th.

Reflecting on Perez's performance, Marko told ServusTV as quoted by : "It started well in qualifying. Suddenly, out of nowhere, he drives the sec🎃ond best time. Then we thought that everything would fit. I think he didn't manage to get the tyres up to tem🍒perature right away like Max did. Of course, 11th place is more than annoying."

- In the same interview, Marko also stated he believes Mercedeꦺs has the faster car over a race distance, while Red Bull has the edge over one lap💜.

- With F1 announcing a race in Miami will take place in 2022, CEO Stefano Domenicali says it could end up replacing a Europ💧ean round on next year's calendar. ()

- Ex-👍Formula 1 driver Ralf Schumacher has criticised Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas after his disappointing performa♊nce at Imola.

In his column for Sky Germany,♎ as cited by , Schumacher questioned why the Finn was near a Williams in the first place before his race-ending accident with George Russell.

“Bottas has to ask himsel♚f why he has to defend himself against a Williams,” Schumacher wrote. “George’s speculation that Valtteri acted like this because of the special s🐽cenario – Russell is a Mercedes junior and has ambitions for the Bottas cockpit – Toto Wolff dismissed as ‘bullsh*t’.

“At over 300 km/h Bottas certainly doesn’t want ꧒to play games, but he certainly didn’t want to let Ru𓃲ssell just pass by either. And I didn’t like his attitude in the interviews that followed. In general, he has to ask himself why he had to defend himself against a Williams while lying deep in midfield.

- Netflix F1 d𓃲ocumentary - Drive to Survive - has been nominated for a SportsEmmy for Serialized Sports Documentary♏.

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- Takin🔯g over from teammate Hamilton yesterday, Valtteri Bottas was in the Mercedes W12 testing Pirelli's 2022 tyres at Imola.

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