Sergio Perez could end the day as the Formula 1 championship leader, if past events are anything to go by 👀 AzerbaijanGP
The former Ferrari junior has upset the odds in six of his eight opening seasons in F1 to record a top three finish in machinery that should’ve been nowhere near.
That hasn’t always been the case for the Mexican, whose desire to impress in his early days often spilled over into chaos. “He hit me from behind and that’s about all there is to it, if he thinks it’s my fault that he came into the corner too fast then he obviously has no idea what he’s talking about.
“Wheel banging at 300 kilometres an hour isn’t normally the way I go racing, but there you go. It’s great for the team that he got some points, but he didn’t go about it in a very clean way I would say. Button’s views later mellowed when he described the Red Bull man as the ‘most surprising’ teammate of a storied career, calling Perez ‘extremely quick’.And the 2009 world champion Brit has since backed Christian Horner’s call to not pick favourites, with many shocked to see Verstappen beaten fair and square by a teammate.