Czech Perez: ‘We have to be perfect for the Mexican GP’

mexican pilot Sergio ‘Czech’ Perezconfirmed this Tuesday that his team must put on a perfect race to be on the podium next Sunday. F1 Mexican Grand Prix.

“It’s definitely possible. We arrived at the right time, but this weekend was perfect and we have to focus on everything,” he said after finishing an exhibition in his hometown of Guadalajara.

Perez, who is third in the F1 season’s drivers’ standings, has admitted that 2022 was his best result despite an accident after modifying his car mid-season.

“We had a bit of ups and downs in the middle of the season when we were fighting for the championship. We took some distance with the improvement of the car, but overall we had good pace and we were there,” he said. He said.

The ‘Czech’ put the RB7 on the streets of Guadalajara on Tuesday in an exhibition that attracted 100,000 motorsport fans as part of the ‘Red Bull Show Run’ before taking part in the Mexican Grand Prix, which runs from 28-30. I was. Held at the Hermanos Rodriguez Autodrome in October.

Thousands of people packed the streets around the city’s iconic Minerva roundabout to enjoy an exhibition of the most successful drivers in the history of Mexican motorsport.

At Urban Track the drivers were the RB7 that won the 2011 World Championship with German Sebastian Vettel and the performances of Vettel and his Australian teammate Mark Webber in 2011 that gave Red Bull the Constructors’ Championship. was shown. .

The ‘Czech’ ran three laps at different times of the show, ‘drifting’ and ‘topping’ at various points on the track, ie turning 360 degrees on its axis, and wowed fans with the power of the car.

At the end of the exhibition, the pilot climbed into a vehicle and waved a Mexican flag before sitting in a regular car to tour the track, from where he greeted the attendees who applauded him, shouting his name and shouting ” I sang Cielito Lindo.

On Tuesday, in Guadalajara, the Czechs repeated what they did at the 2021 Red Bull Show Run in Mexico City. Ten years before that he held an exhibition in Guadalajara in 2011, when the runner was part of his Sauber team, riding a car.

This year, Perez has had the best season of his career, winning two races for the first time in his career, winning Monaco and Singapore. After the United States Grand Prix, the driver scored his 265 points in his 2022 Drivers’ Championship, placing him in third place just two behind him in second place.