Sports writing, May 6 (EFE).- The Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), who will start first this Sunday, ahead of the Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), at the Miami Grand Prix ( USA), the fifth in the Formula One World Championship; He declared in the circuit built around the Hard Rock Stadium in the aforementioned town in the state of Florida that he has to “focus on getting out well” and then “manage the first batch”.
Checo’, born 33 years ago in Guadalajara (Jalisco) signed his third ‘pole’ in F1 this Saturday by dominating qualifying -marked by the accident of Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)- and now he will aim not only for his seventh victory in the division of honor in motorsport, but rather the leadership of the World Cup, in which he is six points behind the leader, his Dutch teammate Max Verstappen (who has 93 points): to which the accident of the driver from the French Riviera -with a minute to go and 36 seconds- left him out of position, with no option for a last attempt; and that he will start ninth this Sunday.
“The team has done a great job. Let’s see what happens tomorrow. Tomorrow we are before another opportunity; it’s only us who have something to lose. I have to focus on getting off to a good start and managing the first round well”, commented the brave driver from Guadalajara, who this Sunday will be the leader of the F1 World Championship if he wins the race; and that he is aiming in any case for his twenty-ninth podium in the premier class.
“It was being my worst weekend of the year until ‘quali’. I didn’t know how to do well what I was doing wrong to keep up with Max and the Ferraris. We have reset everything, we have made a small change before the ‘quali’ and then everything went well”, commented ‘Checo’, who has just won brilliantly last Sunday in Azerbaijan.
“I haven’t had a problem-free weekend; I was still trying to get the most out of the car (when Leclerc’s accident happened), I lacked balance. It’s a very sensitive track, for the tyres. I’m happy, but I’m going race by race”, added the Mexican from Red Bull this Saturday in Miami.
