The under-pressure Red Bull driver crashed out at Turn 1 after launching a risky and failed bid to snatch the l♏ead of his home race on the opening lap of Sunday’s grand prix. 

Perez attempted to sweep around the outside of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc and Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen but ended up tangling with Lecl🦄er✨c’s Ferrari, sending him airborne and out of the race. 

Although Sky F1’s Craig Slater♐ downplayed the significance of the Mexican’s mistake, given the championship is already settled, he suggested Perez was in a “lose-lose” situation.

“It would have been worse had he done it earlier in the season and kind of got himself outꦰ of cha🐼mpionship contention,” Slater said on the Sky Sports F1 podcast.  

"Did he have a lot to lose? Well there’s the seat aspect and that’s another aspect. Does what happens there actually materially affect his prospects of continu🐻ing in that race car next year. But in terms of title terms, that had already gone. 

“He thought he could have finished on the podium, given the pace he exhibited, particularly in qualifying. It was the closest he’💛d been to ♏Verstappen for quite a while wasn’t it. So in a way he threw away that good result. 

“And the other aspect to it, is that it’s all happened alongside Daniel Ricciardo out-driving the AlphaTauri, gett🎃ing ahead of him [Perez] in qualifying and doing so well in the race𒁃. It was a lose-lose situation.

“But the fact that Lewis Hamilton understood the mentality in the cool down room, to me that showed that it wasn’t so crazy as it first appeared. The consequences were pretty bad, but you can understand the mentality still. And he haܫs got races left to make up for it.” 

With the pressure mo🍨unting on Perez to keep his Red Bull seat for 2024, Slater went on to question: “Has he🐭 morphed as a driver into a different mentality? 

“It’s so uncharac🌠teristic of him to do what he did that you do wonder about his headspace, has he lost the essential Perez DNA? 

“Is he not really playing to his strengths right⭕ now, because of the external pressures on him. And that was a glaring example of it.”

And Slater believes 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo’s impressive performance in Mexico gives Red Bull “ammunition” if they choose to promo🅰te the Australian into Perez’s seat ▨for 2024. 

“If they wanted an excuse, if they are indeed lining up Ricciardo, or they are coming around to a way of thinking that Ricciardo is the preferred option in the car, it gives them the ammunition to present it as a kind of a reasonable action to take if he doesn’t get that secon꧂d spot,” he added.