Carlos Sainz and ‘Checo’ Pérez They were stuck in the middle of the fight for the podium with only two laps left until the end of the race. F1 2024 Azerbaijan GP. The impact between the two tires in the middle of the straight caused both cars to hit the wall, although luckily both drivers got out of their cars and were unhurt.
It all happened in the middle of the fight for the second position. Carlos Sainz was launched, with younger tires and great speed. After cutting the seconds of the disadvantage that the team in front had, He arrived at the wheel of ‘Checo’ Pérez and a Leclerc left two seconds behind leader and winner Piastri.
There, Carlos took advantage of the fact that the Mexican tried to pass Charles to get second and The Spaniard surpassed Pérez. He tried the same with Leclerc on the outside of turn 2, but he opened up too much and came out of that turn worse. ‘Checo’ saw the opportunity and launched with better traction inside the trajectory, outside the natural line of the race.
Both were placed in parallel but Sainz was ahead. At a faster pace, the Spaniard tried to follow Leclerc’s slipstream and the natural line in that area, veering slightly to the left as he did at every turn. However, inside is ‘Czech’ and The wheels of the two vehicles collided.
For this reason, neither Carlos nor Pérez wanted to blame their rival and the Spaniard could not understand the reason for the crash in what appeared to be a racing incident. Sainz reiterated that he did not want to close Pérez and followed the usual line, while the Mexican said he had no time to react.
Carlos Sainz’s version
“First of all, it’s happy and calm to see that Checo and I are fine after a very strong impact on the concrete wall on the left. And obviously very upset because I had a very good race. On a circuit where I normally struggle today I was the fastest on the track for the last 20 or 30 laps, making up for the time we lost at the stop and the last lap before the stop and I knew I could pass them quite easily because I had more tires than them.”
“I passed ‘Checo’ first then I attacked Charles I came out of turn 2 badly, ‘Checo’ and I became parallel, hI followed the normal line that we do every lap on this circuit, where you go slowly to the left and I followed Charles, who did the same. And for a reason, which I still don’t fully understand, we got close. So nothing, we have to open the page. “These are the races for the next one.”.
“I think today I have a good taste in my mouth to go very fast in a difficult circuit for me, but then with the bitter taste of knowing that I can get a podium that in the end No points for an incident in which in this case I have not gone to defend myself against ‘Checo’ or I have not made any aggressive maneuvers, or I have tried to take him to the wall or I have tried to defend myself in any way. And for some reason that I don’t understand, we have touched each other.”.
“I was a bit confused by the radio, which I said: ‘What happened? If I’m not trying to defend myself or trying to do anything weird or aggressive. And suddenly someone approached. Career stuff. There are days when things don’t go well and I’m sure ‘Checo’ didn’t mean to have an accident, but I don’t know what to say. You’re a little speechless.”
Version by Checo Pérez
“I came out of the corner with a lot of space between the two cars. And as Charles came in to try to follow my line, Carlos tried to follow Charles’ slipstream, but I was obviously there. And obviously, because he’s faster, with the constant closing, the impact is very fast. “We don’t have time to react.”.
“Incident in the race? Yes, maybe it was a fraction of the time. Carlos was coming faster on the straight and wanted to follow the slipstream, I was there, I didn’t even have space to react when he approached me and us. have an unfortunate contact , because the last person I want to contact here is Carlos and with two laps left in the race, after a weekend like this, for both team it’s a total disaster.”
Source: La Verdad
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