Timo Glock is “sure” Sergio Perez won’t be at Red Bull
much longer having finished 50 seconds down on Max Verstappen despite starting
the Brazilian GP five places ahead.
Perez had,
in his own words, a disaster of a Brazilian Grand Prix as the under-fire
Mexican driver failed to score a single point.
Brazil was ‘not a good calling card’ from Sergio Perez
Having scored just a single point in Saturday’s Sprint,
Perez along with his rivals was made to wait for qualifying as it was postponed
on Saturday when a deluge hit the Interlagos circuit.
The organisers moved it to Sunday morning, a
double-header of action for the fans and a double disappointment for Perez.
He was knocked out of qualifying in Q2 along with
Verstappen as the Red Bull team-mates, the team a victim of the timing of a
late red flag that meant they weren’t able to complete a final flying lap.
Perez was 13th fastest, Verstappen P12, but it was the
Mexican driver who lined up ahead on the grid as Verstappen served a five-place
grid penalty for taking a sixth ICE for the season.
Despite starting five places ahead of his
team-mate, Perez
finished 50 seconds down on the race-winning Red Bull and outside the
points in 11th place.
Conceding it was a disaster, Perez felt everything that
could go against him, did go against him, especially at the aborted start.
“Yeah, it was a disaster,” he told the media in Brazil. “We
didn’t know at the time that we could change the tyres until very last minute,
and there was no time to change them. And we started the race with very cool
tyres.
“And then, as there was no one ahead of me, I started and
went into a hole of water. So it was a total disaster the start.
“We were making progress, and then, unfortunately, the red
flag. And then at the restart, the visibility was zero but we were making some
progress.
“We came all the way to Liam [Lawson], and then we ended up
touching a bit into Turn One, and then I went straight at Turn Four, losing the
position to Lewis [Hamilton].
“It was a total disaster. Nothing worked.”
It was a disaster that Glock says he could ill afford.
With his future the subject of debate, the former F1 driver
is adamant Perez’s days at Red Bull have to be numbered.
“We must not forget the spin at the very beginning of the race,” Glock told Sky Deutschland. “These are mistakes that he must not make. Especially not in the current situation.
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