Jenson Button defends Sergio Perez: ‘What is he supposed to do? He couldn’t lift off…’

Perez’s home race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez ended on the first lap after attempting an ambitious overtake on Leclerc and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
The Mexican🐬 made a storming start from fifth on the grid and moved alongside Leclerc and Verstappen on the run to Turn 1.
Perez turned in too eಞarly and collided with Leclerc, sending his Red Bull airborne before returning into the pit lane to re💯tire.
Speaking after the race, Button felt that Perez “didn’t judge the situation” correctly but didn’t have too many options available to him after𒁃 making it three🦂-wide.
“This is the issue when you have cars that start really well, and cars that don’t. And the drag is so long into 🍌Turn 1,” he said. “What is Checo supposed to do? He couldn’t lift off, and pull in behind, because there were cars there.

“So th♕ey would have had the opportunity to 💫dive down the outside of him and cause mayhem. It’s a tricky one.
“When you get to the point of de𓄧ciding ‘I’m going to turn in now but maybe I just give him room, maybe I juꦆst run off track a bit, and come back on’.
“The start itself, for Max, was great down the middle. But then he got into a position where he hasn’t got to tow. It was a drag race down into Turn 1. Theꦅy did push Carlos out of the way, a little. Th🅘at gave Checo the chance to go for the outside.
“Three-into-one does not work. Charles had nowhere to go. Checo? I think he thought there was enough room for Charles on the inside, else he wouldn’t have turned in. He didn’t want to crash. He just didn’t j🃏udge the situation.”
After Perez’s DNF in Mexico, he sits just 20 points ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton in the standings.

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