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New Purple Bull chassis no assist for struggling Perez in Brazil dash qualifying
Formula 1

New Purple Bull chassis no assist for struggling Perez in Brazil dash qualifying

By Miles Cooper November 2, 2024
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A brand new Purple Bull chassis did not assist Sergio Perez flip his fortunes round as he might solely qualify in thirteenth place for the dash race in Brazil.

The under-fire Purple Bull driver continues to battle for kind after a poor efficiency within the US GP in Austin adopted by his surprising house race in Mexico final weekend, the place he completed seventeenth.

The strain on Perez is ramping up, and once more questions have resurfaced as as to if he will likely be retained by Purple Bull subsequent season, regardless of having a contract in place.

Perez was quizzed about his newest poor end result and reeled off a listing of excuses.

He stated: “We had a superb FP1 after which we had a bit of little bit of understeer with the monitor [temperature] coming down.

“We tried to [deal with] it with the brake steadiness and the instruments which might be accessible after which I ended up a bit of bit too rear-limited.

“After which was a bit complicated on the programme. We thought we’d have an opportunity for a second lap, and sadly, we did not.

“At the moment we did battle fairly a bit and looking out ahead to tomorrow’s qualifying, actually. We obtained caught out with the situations, sadly. And that actually was the tough bit.”

Purple Bull boss Christian Horner had earlier revealed the workforce had reverted to an outdated chassis to assist enhance Perez’s confidence.

New Purple Bull chassis no assist for struggling Perez in Brazil dash qualifying

Sergio Perez, Purple Bull Racing RB20

Picture by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Photos

Horner once more pledged his assist for his driver however stopped in need of offering a ringing endorsement.

He stated: “We’re doing our greatest to try to assist rebuild his confidence. He had a horrible weekend in Mexico.

“We have modified his chassis this weekend. It is an older chassis, that we have put him into simply to offer him that additional enhance of confidence.

“Sergio is a seasoned campaigner. He is been round lengthy sufficient that he is aware of it is a results-based enterprise.

“He is aware of that this season has been under-par for him. No one’s extra aware of that than Sergio, however we’re doing our greatest that we are able to to assist him.”

In the meantime, team-mate Max Verstappen will line up on the second row after qualifying in fourth place for the dash.

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The world champion additionally criticised the bumpy monitor for not serving to his trigger.

He stated: “As quickly as we went into qualifying, it appeared like we had been undoubtedly off the tempo.

“The automobile was a bit tough on the bumps. They did the resurfacing however they really made it worse to drive. It is extraordinarily bumpy all over the place, in order that’s not good for our vehicles.

“All of the bumpy areas, the automobile is leaping round rather a lot, and it is costing me fairly a little bit of lap time.

“Usually while you’re already fairly a bit off over one lap, I do not suppose we’re significantly robust within the race. So we’ll need to see how that goes tomorrow within the dash.

“I additionally know there’s possibly some climate round that may come, however possibly not for the dash.”

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