Perez expresses disappointment: 'It was a bad moment'

Sergio Perez had a disappointing race at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Where he hoped to help Max Verstappen in the front, he had to drop out during the restart after a hard collision. The Mexican had to deal with the moment afterwards.

Perez's crash not only means he can no longer finish third in the world championship, Red Bull Racing also looks set to drop out of the constructors' championship. The driver of the Austrian racing stable realises this all too well.

"It wasn’t the best weekend for the team," he states in the press release. "We lost crucial points in the Constructors’ Championship, so we are going to Abu Dhabi now to try and turn things around. We were slightly unlucky with the first red flag but we got away well after the second restart. We got past Gasly and Charles and as I was coming out of turn three there just wasn’t enough room for everyone, given how the corner was."

It resulted in a hard collision. "I ended up tangling with Charles, he clipped my rear tyre with his front right tyre. It was a bad moment for everyone but just a very unlucky one. It is just a big shame because we needed those points today. I stayed with the car out on track because we were trying to turn the engine back on, we thought we could restart it but it was a bit on the hot side so we had to retire."