Perez takes poor results to task: 'Monday already in the simulator'
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Sergio Perez had a difficult race weekend in Formula 1 for the fifth time in a row. The Mexican consistently fails to make it to the final and most important part of qualifying, making it very difficult for himself on Sunday. Perez says he is already going into the simulator on Monday to start improving in qualifying.
Perez has failed to reach Q3 in the past five Grand Prix weekends, while teammate Max Verstappen has put his RB19 on pole position every time. Due to his mediocre qualifying, the Mexican has scored a lot fewer points than Verstappen each time on Sunday, meaning the gap at the top of the championship has now grown to 99 points. This gap looks too big to make up in 2023.
Perez struggles at Red Bull
On Sunday, Perez manages to fight his way back fine every time, but it is not good enough to challenge Verstappen, 2023 has shown. "I think it's just the amount of detail, I have become a little bit more sensitive to the car in the last few races, especially on Saturday when there's not enough fuel," Perez told GPblog and others.
"It's something that I'm going to be working on already from tomorrow in the simulator with the team, and we have some ideas, but we operate in such a small window of detail that, I mean, we just need a strong Saturday. The positive thing is that the pace is there on Sundays where at the end of the day the points are given, but we just have to sort out and have a clean weekend because the pace is there."