Sergio Pérez said: ‘We need to ask why it’s not being investigated,’ after a crash with Kevin Magnussen took him out of the Monaco F1 GP on lap one
and the Red Bull driver accused the Dane of being wilfully foolhardy when racing, after the Mexican was lucky to be able to climb from the wreckage of his car.
On the opening lap at Monte Carlo going up the hill after turn one, Pérez, who had started in 16th in front of the two Haas drivers, Magnussen and Nico Hülkenberg, was clipped from behind by Magnussen at about 150mph. The Mexican’s car speared into the barriers and then rebounded across the track into the other wall. In the process both Haas cars were collected and seriously damaged.
“This was more dangerous driving, just to keep it flat out knowing that there was going to come contact at some point,” he said. “I think that was some dangerous driving. We need to ask for a reason why it’s not been investigated because without an investigation we don’t get a reason why it wasn’t a penalty. I’m really surprised.”Romain Grosjean was similarly fortunate to escape an even worse impact at Bahrain in 2020 when his car speared into the barriers.
Magnussen, who was penalised for his driving at three successive races this season– the Chinese GP, the sprint in Miami, and the Miami GP – putting his penalty points up to 10, two short of a race ban, insisted Pérez should have left him space and accused him of squeezing him into the wall. However Pérez rejected this and was damning in his assessment of the Dane’s attitude to driving.
“I don’t think he really thinks about the outcome,” Pérez said. “You sometimes find yourself in a position and you have to take a very quick decision to say: ‘There’s only one way of it and it’s going to be contact, so I’d better back out.’ But he will go for the contact.”team principal, Christian Horner, also expressed surprise the incident was not investigated but praised how well the car had protected his driver.
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