Perez crossed the line with just enough time for another lap and the only driver to do so but failed to make it of Q1.
Was it due to the tyres being too cold from waiting for ages at the end of the pitlane or because he’s not on form lately?
It seems that all the drivers that went out first all had slower times.
Do you think he would have done a better lap had he been able to complete it?
I don’t know but I would absolutely squeal if we got to see Danny in a Red Bull this season…
Unlucky, but what’s the saying? The best drivers make their own luck? 5 times in a row can’t be chocked up to luck.
Ultimately unlucky. He was put in the worst position, completely at the front.
However, a little before that, he and Max set laps just seconds after other so the conditions were exactly the same. And Max was 1.4 seconds faster.
Max will be Max, so that he is a bit slower is perfectly fine. But 1.4 seconds is just plain embarrassing.
Albon went half a second quicker right behind him. Sure Albon was on new tyres, but Perez is in a Redbull. I don’t buy that him being out front on cold tyres being enough. He’s in a Redbull, the cost is a bit of their advantage, not a negative.
I think Perez looks a bit uncomfortable in the wet. Wasn’t it Canada quali as well where he just couldn’t find the grip and bailed on the dry tires to make his attempt on Inters when all the fast runners in Q2 were using softs?
Yeah well remembered about Canada in those wet conditions. Perez definitely seems to lack confidence in the wet, at least during qualifying. Not sure if he was the same prior to Red Bull or whether it’s something about the car in such conditions that really doesn’t suit him.
He was unlucky in some ways - the red flag took longer than the team expected so he had cooler tyres from sitting in the pit lane for so long. Also, on the final lap, I’m not sure if he was on a fast lap or not but there was a double yellow flag because of a stopped car on the final lap so he wouldn’t have been able to improve if he had been.
On the other hand he just simply wasn’t fast enough even with the best car on the grid to the point he was a second slower than the fastest car in Q1 (Norris) and couldn’t even beat the Williams. This also hasn’t been the only time he’s had similar qualifying results this season, so you can only blame being unlucky so many times.
I feel like when things aren’t perfect with the setup of his car, or the track conditions aren’t perfect, or there is some interruption in qualifying he just loses a lot of confidence and loses the ability to perform, while other drivers can often overcome such obstacles. For me, he’s definitely out of form still. Hopefully he can turn it around sooner rather than later.
