Sergio “Checo” Pérez He is aware that he did not have the best performance this Friday in free practice ahead of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix. However, The Mexican Red Bull driver remains confident of achieving a good result in qualifying and points to Ferrari as the rival to beat.
The one from Guadalajara, who did not manage to get among the five best times of this Friday’s day at the Melbourne circuit, highlighted that they will have a lot of work to do in the Austrian team to fight in the race where they will seek to maintain the great start of the season he is having and even more so taking into account the performance of Carlos Sainz Jr.
“I think they’ve been pretty strong on this track, it seems to be better for them. They have also been quite strong in the long runs, so I think it will be quite a challenge to beat them this weekend.”commented Sergio “Checo” Pérez on the performance of the Italian team during free practice.
“It seems to me that in general they have been quite fast, so it will be a quite interesting race”added the Mexican who highlighted that at Red Bull they have a lot of work ahead of them for the classification in which they are confident they will be able to have a good result.
“I think we have some work to do. I think the degradation wasn’t too big in the long run, so there’s some work ahead and we’ll go from there. We are in a good place, so we should be strong for tomorrow. “We should qualify as high as possible”launched the Mexican.
Sergio “Checo” Pérez, who achieved second place in the first two tests of the 2024 Formula 1 season, also commented on the difficulty of the Australian track where the third test of the extensive championship calendar will be held.
“As always the Melbourne track is quite complicated, especially when we go in the afternoon. Visibility is very poor, with the sun practically shining in your face, making it very difficult to see” commented the Red Bull team driver.
In the first two tests of the season, the Mexican Sergio “Checo” Pérez managed to come from behind to surpass the Ferrari drivers, first the Spanish Sainz Jr. in Bahrain and then Charles Leclerc in Saudi Arabia, so this weekend This week he will look to start ahead of both in order to continue his good start to the season.
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