Formula 1: Carlos Sainz And Sergio Perez Give Verdicts Regarding Their Baku Crash

Azerbaijan Grand Prix was a delight for fans as it keep viewers glued to ir screens. Several battles were going on at track all at same time. Fans witnessed a four way battle for le of race between Mclaren's Oscar Piastri, Ferrari's Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc and Red Bull driver Sergio Perez. race was ultimately won by Oscar Piastri who h to finish race under Virtual Safety Car conditions as a massive crash took place between Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez. 

crash resulted in race being finished under VSC and Oscar Piastri was followed by Charles Leclerc in second place. 

Carlos Sainz Gives His Take 

Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz gave his take on crash that occured between him and Sergio Perez which led to both drivers not finishing race. 

"I was attacking Charles into Turn 2 and n I exited Turn 2.

"Checo [Perez] was on my left. We normally do a slight drift towards left into long straight, which I did like every or lap, and suddenly for some reason I don’t understand, Checo and I collided, which is unfortunate and also very disappointing.

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“We’ve spoken alrey, But we need to analyse. I’m not someone who wants to put blame on eir an excuse or put blame on anor driver. It’s racing, everything happens super-fast.

“My feeling today is honestly I did nothing wrong, I didn’t do any erratic manoeuvre, put him against wall or anything like that. We were just, like every or lap, drifting a bit, a tiny, tiny little bit towards left because that’s where racing line is and we just touched. It is what it is,” said a heartbroken Carlos Sainz after race. 

Sergio Perez Gives His Verdict 

Red Bull driver Sergio Perez at time of crash h reacted quite angrily but as race ended and some time h passed he gave his verdict on things. 

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“I felt that exiting Turn 2, re was plenty of room between both cars, and within a metre or two, we ended up making contact. 

“It’s very unfortunate. It all happened so quickly. I think Carlos was trying to follow tow from Charles as he went to inside and that really me things really hard,” said Sergio Perez after race.