Canada could not be. Sergio Czech perez, who was one of the darlings of the Canadian circuit, abandoned the race after an engine failure. The Mexican rider lost an important opportunity to stay in the fight for second place in the championship. At Red Bull, by decree, Max Verstappen must have priority in the fight for the Formula 1 crown. Starting from zero hurts. Reliability issues hurt us a lot. I stayed in neutral. Too bad to have lost this day. We had a good strategy. We had everything to fight for the podium,” Pérez said after exiting the garages. Verstappen ended up with the win and lengthens the distances against Charles Leclerc, who finishes fifth.

Pérez has been recognized by the wealthy guild of Formula 1 to be one of the rain specialists. This time in Canada, he was not so lucky. During qualifying, he couldn’t tame the car and crashed into one of the protective barriers. This dropped him to 13th on the starting grid when the resurrection of Fernando Alonso who reached the second position with an Alpine. Leclerc, the main face of Ferrari, changed his power unit for this weekend and relegated him to nineteenth place. Already this Sunday, the Mexican attacked to mount positions. First he overtook Alex Albon’s Williams without any problems, then Valtteri Bottas couldn’t brake in time and the Mexican was eleventh at the time. That of Guadalajara had not had, so far in the season, a battle in the middle of the classification.

Magnussen, from Haas, had to lose his partial sixth place to change the nose of the car and that made the Mexican happy, who climbed to tenth place, already in the points, and with the hope of fighting McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo and Gyan Zhou. of Alfa Romeo. At the ninth lap and at the eighth corner, Checo Pérez’s car could not take it anymore. “I lost the engine! The changes are blocked, ”launched the frustrated Mexican. Sadness also accompanied Fernando Alonso who finished seventh. The Mexican driver will have to wait until Sunday July 3 to take his revenge at Silverstone, in the United Kingdom.

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