Sergio Perez on seventh place in the home race: Feeling like I won

Za Sergio Pereza the home race in Mexico couldn’t have ended better. Team racer Racing Point finished the race with a great performance seventh and thus was the best midfielder. "For us, it's a victory,”Rejoiced Perez, realizing that the first three teams are out of reach. He could not achieve this better resultas it is. “I think we were perfect. Not just today, but also yesterday in the qualifiers. As a team, we showed an amazing performance and we can be very happy with the strategy. I think we showed a perfect race,”So Mexican.

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Ten laps before the end of the race, Ricciardo attacked, but due to late braking, the Australian ended up on the grass.

With this result popular Czech he certainly didn’t count before the race. He thought they would McLaren, Renault in Toro Rosso stronger. But McLaren and Toro Rosso had a reason soft mixtures, with which they started the race, poorer starting point in strategy, which Perez took advantage of. But they were counting on powerful Renault, which was also shown at the end of the race. That's when it is Daniel Ricciardo threatened Perez’s seventh place. The Mexican was on the road with a harder rubber compound and Ricciardo on the middle. “He got very close to me, which made it clear it was going to be hard."

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Perez then managed to defend the seventh place, which was a victory for him, all the way to the finish.

However a real attack Renault could not carry it out. Ricciardo tried, but for good reason late braking the Australian ended up on the grass. “After the race, I told him he didn’t have a race car anymore Red Bulla, with which such a maneuver can be carried out. I braked late and it was good to leave him enough room because I could have touched him differently.And so he had Perez at the end of the race a reason to rejoice. Otherwise it is "only" for victory in the middle of the fieldbut victory is victory. The fans showed in any case how they too rejoice in his success.    

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