The Mexican driver managed to seek out his manner into fifth after Saturday’s earlier FP3 session, though brusquely famous that his Purple Bull was “nowhere” forward of the run-in to qualifying.
His group made duly set-up modifications to the RB20, however these weren’t sufficient to assist Perez progress any additional into qualifying and he finally shook out in a lowly 18th, solely outqualifying the Saubers.
Reflecting on his session, 2022 Monaco winner Perez felt that the proliferation of site visitors was primarily guilty – but in addition reckoned that the peeling stickers that had been scrubbed off the wall by passing automobiles additionally had an impact.
“It was a catastrophe as a result of firstly on my lap I encountered plenty of site visitors into Flip 6, into 7 and there have been some stickers laying down on the apex of 8 so I needed to keep away from all of that,” Perez rued.
“I ended up shedding a few tenths that will have been sufficient to get via. I used to be half a second off P1 so it was only a full catastrophe, sadly.”
Perez was virtually two tenths in need of breaking via into Q2, having failed to enhance sufficiently on his ultimate run of Q1 to dislodge Esteban Ocon’s lap time in fifteenth.
Sergio Perez, Purple Bull Racing RB20
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He felt that glimmering indicators of progress after FP3 had not been delivered upon, and famous that his weekend was now “over” given the infamous problem of passing on the Monte Carlo circuit.
“And principally, the weekend is completely over as a result of right here there isn’t a probability to overhaul sadly,” he added.
“This morning we had been discovering the sunshine. You recognize, I used to be P5. We made some extra modifications, however sadly, there weren’t sufficient to return via.
“And it hurts loads, , as a result of I feel simply by placing regular lap in, it might have been sufficient, however with the site visitors that we encountered, it was actually troublesome.”