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Sergio Perez – often referred to by his nickname Checo – made his F1 debut for Sauber in 2011 and before the end of his second season he’d signed to drive for McLaren. However that proved to be a short-lived relationship.
Perez’s route to F1
Perez started karting in 1996. In 2004, with the support of prominent Mexican businessman Carlos Slim’s Escuderia Telmex, he began racing in the Skip Barber series in the USA.
The following year he moved to Europe and spent two years in the German Formula BMW championship.
Arriving in Britain in 2007 he raced for T-Sport, winning the national (junior) championship that year before graduating into the main series. He began his 2008 campaign strongly with three wins in the first six races, but faded to fourth by the end of the season.
He moved up to GP2 the following year, finishing on the podium in both races at Valencia and ending the year 12th. Switching from Arden to Addax he had a stronger 2010, but was beaten to the title by Pastor Maldonado.
Before the season was over he was signed by Sauber to partner Kamui Kobayashi in 2011. He also joined the driver development programme of Sauber’s engine supplier Ferrari.
Perez became the first Mexican driver to start an F1 race in 30 years when he made his debut in the 2011 Australian Grand Prix.
He would have scored a point on his F1 debut after finishing seventh at Melbourne but the two Saubers were disqualified for a minor technical infringement. A top ten finish four races later in Spain delivered his first points.
Perez reached the final ten in qualifying for the first time at the next round in Monaco, only to crash heavily at the beginning of Q3. He suffered no serious injuries, but missed the race and withdrew from the following round in Canada as he continued to recover. Perez later said it took several races for him to return to full fitness.
Nonetheless he picked up more points in the second half of the season and regularly out-qualified the more experienced Kobayashi. He impressed at Suzuka, battling through the field to score despite being unwell. He even found time to play a joke on his team, telling them on the radio his car had lost power as he sprinted out of the last corner.
A mid-season test for Ferrari indicated he was a candidate to join the team in the future, though he signed a contract extension at Sauber for 2012.
2012
The 2012 season got off to a strong start for Perez as he came close to winning a rain-hit race in Malaysia. But a poorly-timed final pit stop and a costly mistake meant he had to settle for second place behind Fernando Alonso.
Further podium finishes followed in Canada and Italy, raising speculation he might be hired by Ferrari as a replacement for Felipe Massa. However this was repeatedly discounted by the team’s president Luca di Montezemolo, who insisted Perez was not yet experienced enough.
McLaren disagreed with Montezemolo’s assessment of Perez and when they found themselves needing a replacement for Lewis Hamilton the Sauber driver was signed on a multi-year contract beginning in 2013. Team principal Martin Whitmarsh praised Perez’s “string of giant-killing performances” during 2012.
However after the McLaren deal was announced he failed to score again for Sauber. In Japan he spun out while passing Hamilton and he tangled with Sebastian Vettel and Bruno Senna in Brazil.
Perez’s McLaren stint ended disappointingly after a single season
2013
Disappointment swiftly followed Perez’s arrival at McLaren. Their 2013 chassis, MP4-28, was a poor successor to the race-winning car the team ended the previous year with.
It wasn’t even a match for the Sauber Perez had driven the year before. At the point Perez and McLaren parted ways, two races before the end of the season, neither he nor Jenson Button had finished a race higher than fifth.
Perez drew Button’s ire by banging wheels with his team mate during the Bahrain Grand Prix. Although he was usually on Button’s pace in qualifying his race results were less good and at the time his departure was announced he only had slightly more than half Button’s points haul.
After losing his McLaren drive Perez was signed by Force India for the 2014 season.
Force India
2014
Determined to prove his abilities following a disappointing 2013, Perez got his season off to a strong start with third place in Bahrain – only the second time a Force India had made it onto the podium.
He almost achieved an even better result in Canada, running second behind the ailing Mercedes of Nico Rosberg in the closing stages. But he lost his grip on the top three in the final laps, and a last-lap tangle with Felipe Massa provoked a huge accident which Perez was held responsible for.
Although some way behind Hulkenberg in the final points standings, Perez at least enjoyed the distinction of having achieved Force India’s best result of the year, and his contract was extended into 2015.
In what was arguably his best season to date, Perez delivered all four of Force India’s top-five finishes including another return to the podium in Russia. The latter was somewhat fortuitous: Perez had just been demoted to fifth by Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen when the pair tangled on the final lap.
Nonetheless Perez consistently got the best out of the team’s upgraded ‘B-spec’ VJM08 after it was introduced at the British Grand Prix. Once again his tyre-nursing skills were central to his success – ekeing out a long stint in Sochi was what got him in contention for a podium finish in the first place.
Although his first home race proved something of a disappointment as he trailed Hulkenberg at the flag, and he was mystified by his car’s handling in Brazil, he rounded off the season with another strong performance. He planted the Force India fourth on the grid in Abu Dhabi, and came home fifth behind the two Mercedes and two Ferraris. It’s doubtful the car was capable of more at that point.
2016
Perez bolstered his reputation further in 2016 with two podium appearances in the space of three races, in Monaco and Azerbaijan. Third place in the latter could have been even better: He originally qualified on the front row but a grid penalty due to a gearbox change following a crash in practice meant he started seventh.
Force India overtook Williams as the leading Mercedes customer team thanks to these big results and consistent points-scoring by Perez, who was never out of the top ten in the second half of the season. He once again had the edge on Hulkenberg, who left the team at the end of the year to make way for Esteban Ocon.
The start of two fairly turbulent years alongside Ocon, 2017 saw Perez emerge having had the best of his team mate, beating him in the standings and in qualifying. However, it was by no means a smooth route to that as the pair collided early in the season, at Baku, again at the Hungaroring and finally, a truly destructive clash at Spa.
Force India banned them from racing each other in the later races but as Ocon gained experience and speed (in his first full season of Formula One) they seemed impossible to separate on track. Although they never collided as disastrously as the Belgian Grand Prix again, their close battle to come out best in the team saw Perez pushed hard.
2018
A year dominated by Force India’s financial issues – which Perez would, ultimately, save the team from. Difficulties showed right from the start of the season and the team were unable to recapture the speed they had shown in the previous year, Perez recording more finishes outside the points in the first three races than he had the entire previous season.
However, he also claimed a podium at Baku following a dramatic late-stage overtake on Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, the team’s best result of the year. By the summer break, though, Force India’s problems had become too severe to continue and Perez activated a sponsor clause to push the team into administration and allow a buy-out, which was ultimately completed by Lawrence Stroll.
The team became Racing Point from the Belgian Grand Prix onwards but financial stability did not bring team harmony, with Perez and Ocon returning to clashing at the Singapore Grand Prix in an incident Perez took the blame for. He ultimately finished the year eighth in the drivers championship, four places ahead of Ocon.
2019
Following the purchase of Force India by Lawrence Stroll, Lance Stroll became Perez’s team mate. Despite a relatively uncompetitive car, Perez was easily able to dominate Stroll in the standings and scored more than 70% of the team’s points in 2018, finishing tenth in the driver standings.
The team had viewed 2019 as a year of recovery, with grand plans for 2020’s car – which Perez and Stroll were confirmed to be driving again, Perez extending his contract with the team until 2022.
Despite being dropped by Racing Point, Perez won in BahrainRacing Point’s 2020 started in controversy, as their much more competitive car was accused of being a clone of the 2019 Mercedes design. The issue would continue well beyond pre-season testing, into the eventual first races and end with the team being deducted 15 world championship points, taken equally from each car.
Perez scored twice team mate Stroll’s points over the season, finishing fourth in the world drivers championship after what many hailed as his strongest year in the sport. He was the first driver (followed by Stroll and Lewis Hamilton) to contract COVID-19, testing positive for the disease that had suspended much of the year’s racing before the Silverstone rounds and being forced to sit both the British and 70th Anniversary Grand Prix out, in isolation.
The most major controversy of the year, however, was in Perez finding himself ousted from Racing Point, despite being under contract to the team for two more years, for Sebastian Vettel. Perez went on to score his best results of the season, including a win at the Sakhir Grand Prix, while in the unusual situation of having no confirmed spot on the grid for 2021.
A rumour that Perez would replace George Russell at Williams never came to fruition and he ended the season on a career high but without a 2021 seat in F1. However a few days into the off-season his career was rescued by Red Bull, who confirmed he would replace Alexander Albon alongside Max Verstappen in their line-up for 2021.
2021
Sole win of 2021 came at BakuPerez\u2019s first season in a front-running F1 car was unsurprisingly his most competitive to date. He won on his sixth start for Red Bull in Baku and immediately followed that up with a third place at Paul Ricard.
Although he only finished in the top five twice in the next eight races, Perez nonetheless earned a contract extension to 2022. His form then improved as he brought home third place trophies in consecutive races at the Turkish, United States and Mexican grands prix.
He finished fourth in the next two in Brazil and Qatar, the latter despite qualifying 11th, but then followed that up by crashing out at the restart of the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Perez provided a slipstream in qualifying to team mate Max Verstappen at the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix so the latter could secure pole. In the race he also played a vital supporting role, helping Verstappen stay in touch with Hamilton, until rising an oil pressure problem sent him into retirement.
The introduction of F1\u2019s new aerodynamic regulations eventually returned Red Bull to the levels of domination they had experienced a decade previously. But to begin with they were in a close fight with Ferrari and Perez was in the thick of it.
After more than 200 attempts, Perez finally took his first pole positionHe qualified fourth for the season-opening Bahrain GP but retired late in the race along with Verstappen, both suffering fuel system problems. Red Bull soon got on top of their unreliability and Perez bounced back with his first F1 pole at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, setting a record for the most grands prix contested before claiming a pole position. He finished the race in fourth after a Safety Car period occurring just after he pitted dropped him behind his rivals.
He then finished second in the three of the next four races before his earning his third F1 win in Monaco, a few days after signing a contract extension to 2024. A crash in qualifying did not impact his position of third on the grid, but later it emerged Verstappen may have been riled by the incident, which potentially cost him a better starting position.
Perez started and finished second in Baku, then crashed out of qualifying again in Montreal. A gearbox failure then put him out of the race, but he remained second in the championship standings and was runner-up again at Silverstone.
However he was down to third in the standings after the next grand prix at the Red Bull Ring, as track limits violations led to him starting 13th on the grid for the sprint race. He finished that in fifth, but failed to finish Sunday\u2019s race due to collision damage.
In the second half of the season he had fewer highs, but scored more points than in the first 11 events. He won in Singapore, was second at Spa-Francorchamps and Suzuka, and third in Mexico City and Abu Dhabi. However it wasn\u2019t enough to win his fight with Charles Leclerc for second in the standings, and the margin between Perez and his team mate widened over the course of their second season together.
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Sergio Perez – often referred to by his nickname Checo – made his F1 debut for Sauber in 2011 and before the end of his second season he’d signed to drive for McLaren. However that proved to be a short-lived relationship.
Perez’s route to F1
Perez started karting in 1996. In 2004, with the support of prominent Mexican businessman Carlos Slim’s Escuderia Telmex, he began racing in the Skip Barber series in the USA.
The following year he moved to Europe and spent two years in the German Formula BMW championship.
Arriving in Britain in 2007 he raced for T-Sport, winning the national (junior) championship that year before graduating into the main series. He began his 2008 campaign strongly with three wins in the first six races, but faded to fourth by the end of the season.
He moved up to GP2 the following year, finishing on the podium in both races at Valencia and ending the year 12th. Switching from Arden to Addax he had a stronger 2010, but was beaten to the title by Pastor Maldonado.
Before the season was over he was signed by Sauber to partner Kamui Kobayashi in 2011. He also joined the driver development programme of Sauber’s engine supplier Ferrari.
Perez became the first Mexican driver to start an F1 race in 30 years when he made his debut in the 2011 Australian Grand Prix.
He would have scored a point on his F1 debut after finishing seventh at Melbourne but the two Saubers were disqualified for a minor technical infringement. A top ten finish four races later in Spain delivered his first points.
Perez reached the final ten in qualifying for the first time at the next round in Monaco, only to crash heavily at the beginning of Q3. He suffered no serious injuries, but missed the race and withdrew from the following round in Canada as he continued to recover. Perez later said it took several races for him to return to full fitness.
Nonetheless he picked up more points in the second half of the season and regularly out-qualified the more experienced Kobayashi. He impressed at Suzuka, battling through the field to score despite being unwell. He even found time to play a joke on his team, telling them on the radio his car had lost power as he sprinted out of the last corner.
A mid-season test for Ferrari indicated he was a candidate to join the team in the future, though he signed a contract extension at Sauber for 2012.
2012
The 2012 season got off to a strong start for Perez as he came close to winning a rain-hit race in Malaysia. But a poorly-timed final pit stop and a costly mistake meant he had to settle for second place behind Fernando Alonso.
Further podium finishes followed in Canada and Italy, raising speculation he might be hired by Ferrari as a replacement for Felipe Massa. However this was repeatedly discounted by the team’s president Luca di Montezemolo, who insisted Perez was not yet experienced enough.
McLaren disagreed with Montezemolo’s assessment of Perez and when they found themselves needing a replacement for Lewis Hamilton the Sauber driver was signed on a multi-year contract beginning in 2013. Team principal Martin Whitmarsh praised Perez’s “string of giant-killing performances” during 2012.
However after the McLaren deal was announced he failed to score again for Sauber. In Japan he spun out while passing Hamilton and he tangled with Sebastian Vettel and Bruno Senna in Brazil.
Perez’s McLaren stint ended disappointingly after a single season
2013
Disappointment swiftly followed Perez’s arrival at McLaren. Their 2013 chassis, MP4-28, was a poor successor to the race-winning car the team ended the previous year with.
It wasn’t even a match for the Sauber Perez had driven the year before. At the point Perez and McLaren parted ways, two races before the end of the season, neither he nor Jenson Button had finished a race higher than fifth.
Perez drew Button’s ire by banging wheels with his team mate during the Bahrain Grand Prix. Although he was usually on Button’s pace in qualifying his race results were less good and at the time his departure was announced he only had slightly more than half Button’s points haul.
After losing his McLaren drive Perez was signed by Force India for the 2014 season.
Force India
2014
Determined to prove his abilities following a disappointing 2013, Perez got his season off to a strong start with third place in Bahrain – only the second time a Force India had made it onto the podium.
He almost achieved an even better result in Canada, running second behind the ailing Mercedes of Nico Rosberg in the closing stages. But he lost his grip on the top three in the final laps, and a last-lap tangle with Felipe Massa provoked a huge accident which Perez was held responsible for.
Although some way behind Hulkenberg in the final points standings, Perez at least enjoyed the distinction of having achieved Force India’s best result of the year, and his contract was extended into 2015.
In what was arguably his best season to date, Perez delivered all four of Force India’s top-five finishes including another return to the podium in Russia. The latter was somewhat fortuitous: Perez had just been demoted to fifth by Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen when the pair tangled on the final lap.
Nonetheless Perez consistently got the best out of the team’s upgraded ‘B-spec’ VJM08 after it was introduced at the British Grand Prix. Once again his tyre-nursing skills were central to his success – ekeing out a long stint in Sochi was what got him in contention for a podium finish in the first place.
Although his first home race proved something of a disappointment as he trailed Hulkenberg at the flag, and he was mystified by his car’s handling in Brazil, he rounded off the season with another strong performance. He planted the Force India fourth on the grid in Abu Dhabi, and came home fifth behind the two Mercedes and two Ferraris. It’s doubtful the car was capable of more at that point.
2016
Perez bolstered his reputation further in 2016 with two podium appearances in the space of three races, in Monaco and Azerbaijan. Third place in the latter could have been even better: He originally qualified on the front row but a grid penalty due to a gearbox change following a crash in practice meant he started seventh.
Force India overtook Williams as the leading Mercedes customer team thanks to these big results and consistent points-scoring by Perez, who was never out of the top ten in the second half of the season. He once again had the edge on Hulkenberg, who left the team at the end of the year to make way for Esteban Ocon.
The start of two fairly turbulent years alongside Ocon, 2017 saw Perez emerge having had the best of his team mate, beating him in the standings and in qualifying. However, it was by no means a smooth route to that as the pair collided early in the season, at Baku, again at the Hungaroring and finally, a truly destructive clash at Spa.
Force India banned them from racing each other in the later races but as Ocon gained experience and speed (in his first full season of Formula One) they seemed impossible to separate on track. Although they never collided as disastrously as the Belgian Grand Prix again, their close battle to come out best in the team saw Perez pushed hard.
2018
A year dominated by Force India’s financial issues – which Perez would, ultimately, save the team from. Difficulties showed right from the start of the season and the team were unable to recapture the speed they had shown in the previous year, Perez recording more finishes outside the points in the first three races than he had the entire previous season.
However, he also claimed a podium at Baku following a dramatic late-stage overtake on Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, the team’s best result of the year. By the summer break, though, Force India’s problems had become too severe to continue and Perez activated a sponsor clause to push the team into administration and allow a buy-out, which was ultimately completed by Lawrence Stroll.
The team became Racing Point from the Belgian Grand Prix onwards but financial stability did not bring team harmony, with Perez and Ocon returning to clashing at the Singapore Grand Prix in an incident Perez took the blame for. He ultimately finished the year eighth in the drivers championship, four places ahead of Ocon.
2019
Following the purchase of Force India by Lawrence Stroll, Lance Stroll became Perez’s team mate. Despite a relatively uncompetitive car, Perez was easily able to dominate Stroll in the standings and scored more than 70% of the team’s points in 2018, finishing tenth in the driver standings.
The team had viewed 2019 as a year of recovery, with grand plans for 2020’s car – which Perez and Stroll were confirmed to be driving again, Perez extending his contract with the team until 2022.
Despite being dropped by Racing Point, Perez won in BahrainRacing Point’s 2020 started in controversy, as their much more competitive car was accused of being a clone of the 2019 Mercedes design. The issue would continue well beyond pre-season testing, into the eventual first races and end with the team being deducted 15 world championship points, taken equally from each car.
Perez scored twice team mate Stroll’s points over the season, finishing fourth in the world drivers championship after what many hailed as his strongest year in the sport. He was the first driver (followed by Stroll and Lewis Hamilton) to contract COVID-19, testing positive for the disease that had suspended much of the year’s racing before the Silverstone rounds and being forced to sit both the British and 70th Anniversary Grand Prix out, in isolation.
The most major controversy of the year, however, was in Perez finding himself ousted from Racing Point, despite being under contract to the team for two more years, for Sebastian Vettel. Perez went on to score his best results of the season, including a win at the Sakhir Grand Prix, while in the unusual situation of having no confirmed spot on the grid for 2021.
A rumour that Perez would replace George Russell at Williams never came to fruition and he ended the season on a career high but without a 2021 seat in F1. However a few days into the off-season his career was rescued by Red Bull, who confirmed he would replace Alexander Albon alongside Max Verstappen in their line-up for 2021.
2021
Sole win of 2021 came at BakuPerez\u2019s first season in a front-running F1 car was unsurprisingly his most competitive to date. He won on his sixth start for Red Bull in Baku and immediately followed that up with a third place at Paul Ricard.
Although he only finished in the top five twice in the next eight races, Perez nonetheless earned a contract extension to 2022. His form then improved as he brought home third place trophies in consecutive races at the Turkish, United States and Mexican grands prix.
He finished fourth in the next two in Brazil and Qatar, the latter despite qualifying 11th, but then followed that up by crashing out at the restart of the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Perez provided a slipstream in qualifying to team mate Max Verstappen at the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix so the latter could secure pole. In the race he also played a vital supporting role, helping Verstappen stay in touch with Hamilton, until rising an oil pressure problem sent him into retirement.
The introduction of F1\u2019s new aerodynamic regulations eventually returned Red Bull to the levels of domination they had experienced a decade previously. But to begin with they were in a close fight with Ferrari and Perez was in the thick of it.
After more than 200 attempts, Perez finally took his first pole positionHe qualified fourth for the season-opening Bahrain GP but retired late in the race along with Verstappen, both suffering fuel system problems. Red Bull soon got on top of their unreliability and Perez bounced back with his first F1 pole at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, setting a record for the most grands prix contested before claiming a pole position. He finished the race in fourth after a Safety Car period occurring just after he pitted dropped him behind his rivals.
He then finished second in the three of the next four races before his earning his third F1 win in Monaco, a few days after signing a contract extension to 2024. A crash in qualifying did not impact his position of third on the grid, but later it emerged Verstappen may have been riled by the incident, which potentially cost him a better starting position.
Perez started and finished second in Baku, then crashed out of qualifying again in Montreal. A gearbox failure then put him out of the race, but he remained second in the championship standings and was runner-up again at Silverstone.
However he was down to third in the standings after the next grand prix at the Red Bull Ring, as track limits violations led to him starting 13th on the grid for the sprint race. He finished that in fifth, but failed to finish Sunday\u2019s race due to collision damage.
In the second half of the season he had fewer highs, but scored more points than in the first 11 events. He won in Singapore, was second at Spa-Francorchamps and Suzuka, and third in Mexico City and Abu Dhabi. However it wasn\u2019t enough to win his fight with Charles Leclerc for second in the standings, and the margin between Perez and his team mate widened over the course of their second season together.
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Sergio Perez – often referred to by his nickname Checo – made his F1 debut for Sauber in 2011 and before the end of his second season he’d signed to drive for McLaren. However that proved to be a short-lived relationship.
Perez’s route to F1
Perez started karting in 1996. In 2004, with the support of prominent Mexican businessman Carlos Slim’s Escuderia Telmex, he began racing in the Skip Barber series in the USA.
The following year he moved to Europe and spent two years in the German Formula BMW championship.
Arriving in Britain in 2007 he raced for T-Sport, winning the national (junior) championship that year before graduating into the main series. He began his 2008 campaign strongly with three wins in the first six races, but faded to fourth by the end of the season.
He moved up to GP2 the following year, finishing on the podium in both races at Valencia and ending the year 12th. Switching from Arden to Addax he had a stronger 2010, but was beaten to the title by Pastor Maldonado.
Before the season was over he was signed by Sauber to partner Kamui Kobayashi in 2011. He also joined the driver development programme of Sauber’s engine supplier Ferrari.
Perez became the first Mexican driver to start an F1 race in 30 years when he made his debut in the 2011 Australian Grand Prix.
He would have scored a point on his F1 debut after finishing seventh at Melbourne but the two Saubers were disqualified for a minor technical infringement. A top ten finish four races later in Spain delivered his first points.
Perez reached the final ten in qualifying for the first time at the next round in Monaco, only to crash heavily at the beginning of Q3. He suffered no serious injuries, but missed the race and withdrew from the following round in Canada as he continued to recover. Perez later said it took several races for him to return to full fitness.
Nonetheless he picked up more points in the second half of the season and regularly out-qualified the more experienced Kobayashi. He impressed at Suzuka, battling through the field to score despite being unwell. He even found time to play a joke on his team, telling them on the radio his car had lost power as he sprinted out of the last corner.
A mid-season test for Ferrari indicated he was a candidate to join the team in the future, though he signed a contract extension at Sauber for 2012.
2012
The 2012 season got off to a strong start for Perez as he came close to winning a rain-hit race in Malaysia. But a poorly-timed final pit stop and a costly mistake meant he had to settle for second place behind Fernando Alonso.
Further podium finishes followed in Canada and Italy, raising speculation he might be hired by Ferrari as a replacement for Felipe Massa. However this was repeatedly discounted by the team’s president Luca di Montezemolo, who insisted Perez was not yet experienced enough.
McLaren disagreed with Montezemolo’s assessment of Perez and when they found themselves needing a replacement for Lewis Hamilton the Sauber driver was signed on a multi-year contract beginning in 2013. Team principal Martin Whitmarsh praised Perez’s “string of giant-killing performances” during 2012.
However after the McLaren deal was announced he failed to score again for Sauber. In Japan he spun out while passing Hamilton and he tangled with Sebastian Vettel and Bruno Senna in Brazil.
Perez’s McLaren stint ended disappointingly after a single season
2013
Disappointment swiftly followed Perez’s arrival at McLaren. Their 2013 chassis, MP4-28, was a poor successor to the race-winning car the team ended the previous year with.
It wasn’t even a match for the Sauber Perez had driven the year before. At the point Perez and McLaren parted ways, two races before the end of the season, neither he nor Jenson Button had finished a race higher than fifth.
Perez drew Button’s ire by banging wheels with his team mate during the Bahrain Grand Prix. Although he was usually on Button’s pace in qualifying his race results were less good and at the time his departure was announced he only had slightly more than half Button’s points haul.
After losing his McLaren drive Perez was signed by Force India for the 2014 season.
Force India
2014
Determined to prove his abilities following a disappointing 2013, Perez got his season off to a strong start with third place in Bahrain – only the second time a Force India had made it onto the podium.
He almost achieved an even better result in Canada, running second behind the ailing Mercedes of Nico Rosberg in the closing stages. But he lost his grip on the top three in the final laps, and a last-lap tangle with Felipe Massa provoked a huge accident which Perez was held responsible for.
Although some way behind Hulkenberg in the final points standings, Perez at least enjoyed the distinction of having achieved Force India’s best result of the year, and his contract was extended into 2015.
In what was arguably his best season to date, Perez delivered all four of Force India’s top-five finishes including another return to the podium in Russia. The latter was somewhat fortuitous: Perez had just been demoted to fifth by Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen when the pair tangled on the final lap.
Nonetheless Perez consistently got the best out of the team’s upgraded ‘B-spec’ VJM08 after it was introduced at the British Grand Prix. Once again his tyre-nursing skills were central to his success – ekeing out a long stint in Sochi was what got him in contention for a podium finish in the first place.
Although his first home race proved something of a disappointment as he trailed Hulkenberg at the flag, and he was mystified by his car’s handling in Brazil, he rounded off the season with another strong performance. He planted the Force India fourth on the grid in Abu Dhabi, and came home fifth behind the two Mercedes and two Ferraris. It’s doubtful the car was capable of more at that point.
2016
Perez bolstered his reputation further in 2016 with two podium appearances in the space of three races, in Monaco and Azerbaijan. Third place in the latter could have been even better: He originally qualified on the front row but a grid penalty due to a gearbox change following a crash in practice meant he started seventh.
Force India overtook Williams as the leading Mercedes customer team thanks to these big results and consistent points-scoring by Perez, who was never out of the top ten in the second half of the season. He once again had the edge on Hulkenberg, who left the team at the end of the year to make way for Esteban Ocon.
The start of two fairly turbulent years alongside Ocon, 2017 saw Perez emerge having had the best of his team mate, beating him in the standings and in qualifying. However, it was by no means a smooth route to that as the pair collided early in the season, at Baku, again at the Hungaroring and finally, a truly destructive clash at Spa.
Force India banned them from racing each other in the later races but as Ocon gained experience and speed (in his first full season of Formula One) they seemed impossible to separate on track. Although they never collided as disastrously as the Belgian Grand Prix again, their close battle to come out best in the team saw Perez pushed hard.
2018
A year dominated by Force India’s financial issues – which Perez would, ultimately, save the team from. Difficulties showed right from the start of the season and the team were unable to recapture the speed they had shown in the previous year, Perez recording more finishes outside the points in the first three races than he had the entire previous season.
However, he also claimed a podium at Baku following a dramatic late-stage overtake on Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari, the team’s best result of the year. By the summer break, though, Force India’s problems had become too severe to continue and Perez activated a sponsor clause to push the team into administration and allow a buy-out, which was ultimately completed by Lawrence Stroll.
The team became Racing Point from the Belgian Grand Prix onwards but financial stability did not bring team harmony, with Perez and Ocon returning to clashing at the Singapore Grand Prix in an incident Perez took the blame for. He ultimately finished the year eighth in the drivers championship, four places ahead of Ocon.
2019
Following the purchase of Force India by Lawrence Stroll, Lance Stroll became Perez’s team mate. Despite a relatively uncompetitive car, Perez was easily able to dominate Stroll in the standings and scored more than 70% of the team’s points in 2018, finishing tenth in the driver standings.
The team had viewed 2019 as a year of recovery, with grand plans for 2020’s car – which Perez and Stroll were confirmed to be driving again, Perez extending his contract with the team until 2022.
Despite being dropped by Racing Point, Perez won in BahrainRacing Point’s 2020 started in controversy, as their much more competitive car was accused of being a clone of the 2019 Mercedes design. The issue would continue well beyond pre-season testing, into the eventual first races and end with the team being deducted 15 world championship points, taken equally from each car.
Perez scored twice team mate Stroll’s points over the season, finishing fourth in the world drivers championship after what many hailed as his strongest year in the sport. He was the first driver (followed by Stroll and Lewis Hamilton) to contract COVID-19, testing positive for the disease that had suspended much of the year’s racing before the Silverstone rounds and being forced to sit both the British and 70th Anniversary Grand Prix out, in isolation.
The most major controversy of the year, however, was in Perez finding himself ousted from Racing Point, despite being under contract to the team for two more years, for Sebastian Vettel. Perez went on to score his best results of the season, including a win at the Sakhir Grand Prix, while in the unusual situation of having no confirmed spot on the grid for 2021.
A rumour that Perez would replace George Russell at Williams never came to fruition and he ended the season on a career high but without a 2021 seat in F1. However a few days into the off-season his career was rescued by Red Bull, who confirmed he would replace Alexander Albon alongside Max Verstappen in their line-up for 2021.
2021
Sole win of 2021 came at BakuPerez\u2019s first season in a front-running F1 car was unsurprisingly his most competitive to date. He won on his sixth start for Red Bull in Baku and immediately followed that up with a third place at Paul Ricard.
Although he only finished in the top five twice in the next eight races, Perez nonetheless earned a contract extension to 2022. His form then improved as he brought home third place trophies in consecutive races at the Turkish, United States and Mexican grands prix.
He finished fourth in the next two in Brazil and Qatar, the latter despite qualifying 11th, but then followed that up by crashing out at the restart of the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Perez provided a slipstream in qualifying to team mate Max Verstappen at the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix so the latter could secure pole. In the race he also played a vital supporting role, helping Verstappen stay in touch with Hamilton, until rising an oil pressure problem sent him into retirement.
The introduction of F1\u2019s new aerodynamic regulations eventually returned Red Bull to the levels of domination they had experienced a decade previously. But to begin with they were in a close fight with Ferrari and Perez was in the thick of it.
After more than 200 attempts, Perez finally took his first pole positionHe qualified fourth for the season-opening Bahrain GP but retired late in the race along with Verstappen, both suffering fuel system problems. Red Bull soon got on top of their unreliability and Perez bounced back with his first F1 pole at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, setting a record for the most grands prix contested before claiming a pole position. He finished the race in fourth after a Safety Car period occurring just after he pitted dropped him behind his rivals.
He then finished second in the three of the next four races before his earning his third F1 win in Monaco, a few days after signing a contract extension to 2024. A crash in qualifying did not impact his position of third on the grid, but later it emerged Verstappen may have been riled by the incident, which potentially cost him a better starting position.
Perez started and finished second in Baku, then crashed out of qualifying again in Montreal. A gearbox failure then put him out of the race, but he remained second in the championship standings and was runner-up again at Silverstone.
However he was down to third in the standings after the next grand prix at the Red Bull Ring, as track limits violations led to him starting 13th on the grid for the sprint race. He finished that in fifth, but failed to finish Sunday\u2019s race due to collision damage.
In the second half of the season he had fewer highs, but scored more points than in the first 11 events. He won in Singapore, was second at Spa-Francorchamps and Suzuka, and third in Mexico City and Abu Dhabi. However it wasn\u2019t enough to win his fight with Charles Leclerc for second in the standings, and the margin between Perez and his team mate widened over the course of their second season together.
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Force India signed P\u00e9rez for the 2014 season with a \u20ac15 million contract.[9] He remained with Force India when the team went into administration in 2018 and reformed as the Racing Point team for 2019. In 2019, Racing Point signed a three-year extension with P\u00e9rez.[10] In September 2020, Racing Point announced that P\u00e9rez would be leaving the team at the end of the season as Sebastian Vettel, a four-time F1 world champion, had been signed to replace him. In December, P\u00e9rez signed with Red Bull Racing for the 2021 season.[11]\nHe is currently under contract with Red Bull Racing until the end of the 2024 season.[12]\n
Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, P\u00e9rez is the youngest child of Antonio P\u00e9rez Garibay and Maril\u00fa Mendoza de P\u00e9rez; he also has an older sister Paola and an older brother Antonio,[13] a retired stock car racing driver who competed in the NASCAR Mexico Series. P\u00e9rez is married to Carola Mart\u00ednez, and they have four children.[14][15] P\u00e9rez is Catholic.[16]\n
Both P\u00e9rez brothers are association football fans, stating that they thought about leaving car racing to play professionally.[17] The brothers are friends of Mexican footballer Javier Hern\u00e1ndez.[18] In an interview in 2012 for the official Formula One website, P\u00e9rez revealed that if he had not been a driver he would have liked to have been a lawyer.[19]\n
P\u00e9rez began his career in karting at the age of six in 1996.[20] In his first year of competition he achieved four victories in the junior category and claimed the runner-up spot in the category. In 1997, he participated in the karting Youth Class, where he was the youngest driver in the category and earned a win and five podium finishes and finished fourth in the championship.\n
The following year, he returned to compete in the junior category; he achieved eight wins and became the youngest driver to become champion of the category. He also participated in several races in Shifter 125cc and competed in Master Kadets, where he finished on the podium.\n
In 1999, he raced in the 80cc Shifter category, taking three wins and finishing third in the championship. He also became the youngest driver to win a competition in the category, after obtaining special permission from the Federation to participate in the 80cc Shifter.\n
In 2000, he raced in the Shifter 80cc Championship and also participated in three races in the Shifter 125cc category, which was part of the Telmex Challenge. The following year saw him become the youngest driver to compete in the 125cc Shifter Regional category. By now, his achievements were bringing him to the attention of scouts for Escuderia Telmex.\n
With six wins in 2002, P\u00e9rez finished as the national runner-up in the Shifter 125cc category, and participated in the global race Shifter 80cc, in Las Vegas, where he qualified fifth and finished in 11th place.\n
In 2003, he was leading both championships in the 125cc category but withdrew from the last seven races, which proved to be a disappointment in his title aspirations. However, he finished in third place in Telmex Challenge, in addition to being Cup runner-up in Mexico. In the same year, he was also invited to attend the Easy Kart 125 Shootout, where he competed against drivers from around the world and won the race, again as the youngest driver.\n
P\u00e9rez competed in the US-based Skip Barber National Championship in 2004. Driving for a team sponsored by Mexican telecommunications company Telmex, he finished eleventh in the championship.\n
P\u00e9rez moved to Europe in 2005 to compete in the German Formula BMW ADAC series. He was allowed to live in a restaurant owned by his team manager for four months.[21] He finished fourteenth in the championship, driving for 4speed Media, and improved to sixth position the following year.\n
P\u00e9rez switched to the British Formula 3 Championship for 2007. P\u00e9rez relocated his residence to Oxford.[21] He competed in the National Class \u2013 for older chassis \u2013 with the T-Sport team, winning the championship by a comfortable margin. In the process, he won two-thirds of the races and a similar proportion of pole positions, and finished all but two races on the podium.\n
For 2008, he and T-Sport graduated to the premier International Class of the championship, where he was one of the few drivers to be equipped with a Mugen Honda engine. After leading the championship early in the season, he eventually finished fourth in the drivers' standings.\n
On 4 October 2010, Sauber announced that P\u00e9rez would join the team in 2011, replacing Nick Heidfeld. Sauber subsequently announced a partnership with P\u00e9rez's sponsor Telmex.[24] He became the fifth Mexican to compete in Formula One, and the first since H\u00e9ctor Rebaque competed between 1977 and 1981. He also became a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy scheme in October 2010.[25]\n
P\u00e9rez finished seventh in his first race, the Australian Grand Prix, impressing observers by stopping to change tyres only once, becoming the only driver in the field to make fewer than two stops.[26] However, both Sauber cars were subsequently disqualified for infringing technical regulations.[27] He failed to repeat the result in Malaysia where body parts flew off S\u00e9bastien Buemi's Toro Rosso car and into the electrical system of P\u00e9rez's Sauber, forcing his retirement. The Chinese Grand Prix saw him start in 12th position and he struggled during the race as well as making contact with several drivers en route to 17th. He followed that up with fourteenth in Turkey, before a ninth-place finish in Spain \u2013 ahead of teammate Kamui Kobayashi in tenth \u2013 to take his first Formula One points.\n
During the third part of qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez lost control of his car upon exiting the circuit's tunnel section, swung to the right and crashed into the barrier, before sliding across the chicane and hitting the TecPro barrier with a heavy side impact.[28] He was seen holding his hands around his head in an attempt to protect it just before the final impact. The session was suspended, and marshals and medical personnel extricated P\u00e9rez from his car. A Sauber team spokesman said that he was conscious and able to talk after the accident, and had been taken to the circuit's medical centre.[29] He suffered a sprained thigh and concussion, and did not take part in the race the following day, on medical grounds.[30] After taking part in the first practice session of the Canadian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez did not feel well enough and decided not to take any further part, and was replaced by Pedro de la Rosa.[31]\n
P\u00e9rez returned for the European Grand Prix and finished eleventh after attempting to run the race on a one-stop strategy. He took a career-best seventh at the British Grand Prix and eleventh in Germany. After a fifteenth place in Hungary, he retired in Belgium with suspension failure. This was followed by a gearbox failure while running seventh in Italy, before he scored a point in Singapore after losing ninth place to Felipe Massa. In Japan he took eighth place, before a sixteenth-place finish in Korea, tenth in India, and an eleventh-place finish in Abu Dhabi. He finished sixteenth in the Drivers' Championship with fourteen points.\n
On 28 July, it was announced that P\u00e9rez would remain with Sauber into the 2012 season, alongside teammate Kobayashi.[32] On 13 September, P\u00e9rez tested for Ferrari as part of the Ferrari Driver Academy in a Ferrari F60, Ferrari's car from the 2009 season. P\u00e9rez conducted the test with fellow academy member Jules Bianchi.[33]\n
\nP\u00e9rez chasing Alonso for the lead of the 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix, where he achieved his first podium in Formula One\n
P\u00e9rez started the season with eighth place at the Australian Grand Prix, losing several places on the final lap due to excessively-worn tyres.[34] In the second round at Malaysia, he went on to battle with Fernando Alonso for the win. In the dying laps of the race he was able to close the gap to 0.5 seconds, but was not able to make the pass as he went wide at turn 14 and fell back, finishing 2.2 seconds behind Alonso in second. Many observers praised his performance despite his late-race error,[35][36][37] taking Sauber's best result as an independent team.[citation needed] This drive won him plaudits and fuelled speculation of a move to Ferrari in the near future.[38] However, P\u00e9rez later told reporters that he expected to stay with Sauber until at least the end of the 2012 season.[39]\n
At the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix, he qualified a career-best eighth, but finished the race in eleventh place after problems with pit strategy and his car's clutch.[40] He finished outside the points in the next three races \u2013 despite recording the fastest lap in Monaco,[41] before P\u00e9rez achieved his second career podium at the Canadian Grand Prix, finishing the race in third place, having started fifteenth.[42]\n
\nP\u00e9rez on his way to third place in the 2012 Canadian Grand Prix, his second podium finish\n
In the European Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified in fifteenth place, citing a handling imbalance and the car feeling \"unpredictable\" as reasons for the gap to Kobayashi in seventh.[43] He improved to ninth place in the race, but raised poor qualifying form as an issue for the team.[44] On lap 12 of the British Grand Prix, he collided with Pastor Maldonado, forcing him to retire with broken suspension. He later criticised the Venezuelan, claiming \"Everybody has concerns about him\" before adding, \"He is a driver who doesn't know that we are risking our lives and has no respect at all\".[45] Maldonado received a double penalty in the form of a reprimand and a \u20ac10,000 fine after the race. P\u00e9rez later added: \"Just look at the last races. He ruined [Lewis] Hamilton's race (in Valencia), he ruined my race in Monaco by doing stupid things. I don't understand why the stewards don't take a serious decision with him. With Pastor they're not doing anything that will teach him a lesson.\"[46]\n
For the German Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez started in 17th position but was able to make his way through the field, and ultimately finished the race in 6th place.[47] At the Belgian Grand Prix, he made it into Q3 and qualified fifth fastest. A penalty for Maldonado subsequently promoted P\u00e9rez to a career-best fourth on the grid.[48] In the race, he was forced to retire in the first turn of the first lap after Romain Grosjean caused a spectacular accident. Grosjean crashed his car into Lewis Hamilton creating a domino effect which involved five cars. Also involved in the accident were, the championship leader Fernando Alonso and P\u00e9rez's teammate Kamui Kobayashi.[49]\n
P\u00e9rez took his third podium at the Italian Grand Prix. On Saturday, he failed to qualify for Q3 and was twelfth on the grid. On Sunday, he climbed through the field to second place, passing on track, among others, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen, Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa and Alonso. Unlike most of the drivers in the field, P\u00e9rez started the race on hard tyres and changed to the medium tyres on lap 29,[50] allowing him to lead the Grand Prix for five laps. As a result, P\u00e9rez and his car's outstanding tyre management got him well into the points, and ultimately, to a podium finish. Ultimately, he finished the season in tenth place in the Drivers' Championship with 66 points, 6 more than teammate Kobayashi.[51]\n
\nP\u00e9rez in the MP4-28 during winter tests at Jerez, in 2013\n
On 28 September 2012, Lewis Hamilton's decision to leave McLaren for Mercedes in 2013 was announced, and P\u00e9rez was subsequently confirmed as Hamilton's replacement.[52] He also replaced Hamilton in McLaren's cartoon Tooned.[53] This also ended P\u00e9rez' association with Ferrari, as he was released from its driver academy.\n
In the season-opening race in Australia, P\u00e9rez qualified 15th and finished in 11th position, later describing the weekend as \"difficult\" for himself and the team as a whole.[54] He started the Malaysian Grand Prix from ninth on the grid, and finished the race in the same position, scoring his first points for McLaren. He also achieved the fastest lap of the race, having pitted for fresh tyres.[55][56]\n
In the Bahrain GP, he started 12th on the grid and finished 6th ahead of Ferrari's Fernando Alonso (8th) and his teammate Jenson Button (10th), with whom he had a fierce duel in which they touched on a couple of occasions, increasing the competition between drivers in McLaren on the following races.[57]\n
After the Bahrain Grand Prix, Jenson Button said of P\u00e9rez's driving style:\n
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I've raced with many team-mates over the years and with quite an aggressive team-mate in Lewis, but I'm not used to driving down the straight and then my team-mate coming along and wiggling his wheels at me and banging wheels with me at 300km/h. I've had some tough fights in F1 but not quite as dirty as that.\nThat's something you do in karting and normally you grow out of it but that's obviously not the case with Checo [P\u00e9rez]. Soon something serious will happen so he has to calm down. He's extremely quick and he did a great job today but some of it is unnecessary and an issue when you are doing those speeds.
\u2014 Jenson Button speaking to ESPN about P\u00e9rez after the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix[58]
At the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix P\u00e9rez performed several aggressive overtaking moves, before retiring after colliding with Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen. Following the incident R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen said that P\u00e9rez should be \"punched in the face\".[59] P\u00e9rez recorded a season-best fifth-place finish in India, finishing four seconds shy of the podium, a result that left him \"extremely satisfied\".[60]\n
P\u00e9rez confirmed on 13 November 2013 that he would be leaving McLaren at the end of the season to be replaced by Kevin Magnussen.[61] On 12 December 2013 (exactly a month after it was announced he would leave McLaren), Force India confirmed that P\u00e9rez would join Nico H\u00fclkenberg in their driver line-up for 2014 in a 15 million Euro deal.\n
In the Australian Grand Prix, he finished 11th but was moved up to 10th to get his first point for Force India due to Daniel Ricciardo being disqualified for breaching fuel limits. He failed to start the Malaysian Grand Prix, after his car encountered gearbox issues before the start of the race. Nevertheless, a week later in the Bahrain Grand Prix, he was able to score Force India's first podium since 2009,[62] holding off Ricciardo's Red Bull for a third-place finish.[63] At the Chinese Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez started 16th and after gaining four places at the start, was able to overtake both McLarens and Daniil Kvyat's Toro Rosso to finish 9th. Out-qualifying his teammate for a second time, P\u00e9rez started in the tenth position for the Monaco Grand Prix however a first-lap collision with Jenson Button meant an early retirement for the first time in the season. At the Canadian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez was again fighting for another podium finish until the car suffered braking issues, later resulting in losing the third-place position to both Red Bulls. On the last lap, he was involved in a collision with Felipe Massa, who crashed into the back of his Force India sending both cars heavily into the barriers. P\u00e9rez was subsequently given a five-place grid penalty for the next race, as the stewards decided he changed his racing line, causing Massa to crash into him.[64] At the Austrian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez set his third fastest lap of his career whilst also giving Force India their third fastest lap in their history.\n
On 7 November 2014, before the Brazilian Grand Prix, Force India announced that P\u00e9rez would remain with the team for the 2015 season.[65] P\u00e9rez stated that contract negotiations were \"ongoing\", in regards to a further contract extension. The deal was officially confirmed at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with P\u00e9rez signing a new two-year contract, until the end of the 2016 season.[66]\n
The 2015 season started with a 10th place for P\u00e9rez in Australia, followed by a 13th in Malaysia, an 11th in China and an eighth in Bahrain. He came fifth in Belgium and sixth in Italy. His best race of the season was in Russia, where he scored his first podium of 2015 and Force India's third-ever.[67] At the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix during the first practice session he suffered a rear suspension failure and lost control of his car which led to a barrel roll that destroyed his car, he was able to walk away from the accident unscathed.[68] He finished the 2015 championship in ninth, his highest championship position to date, with 78 points. He outscored teammate H\u00fclkenberg by 20 points. Besides the podium finish in Russia, he managed three further top-five finishes in Belgium, the US, and Abu Dhabi; he scored 63 of his 78 points in the final nine rounds. In the second half of the season, he out-qualified his teammate in six of the last nine races and eight times throughout the season.\n
P\u00e9rez experienced a difficult start to the season for the first four races due to an uncompetitive VJM09, but scored points with a ninth-place in Russia. Upgrades were introduced in Barcelona with a seventh-place finish indicating an improvement in the team's form.\n
In Monaco, P\u00e9rez scored his sixth (and Force India's fourth) podium finish in wet and changing conditions and moved to ninth in the Drivers' Championship standings. Tyre management played a significant role but in contrast to previous occasions he pitted as many times as Ferrari and Red Bull, at times catching up with the front runners and managing to hold Sebastian Vettel in fourth at a comfortable distance.[69]\n
In the European Grand Prix in Baku P\u00e9rez once again finished third, recovering from a gearbox change penalty as a result of a crash during free practice, having been fast enough to qualify on the front row. Despite having to start from seventh on the grid he made his way up to fourth before passing Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen on the last lap of the race for third, making it his second podium in three races.[70][71]\n
After the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez confirmed he had committed to Force India for the 2017 season. He remained with the Indian team for a fourth consecutive season alongside new teammate Esteban Ocon, ending speculation of a possible move to Williams, Renault or Haas.[72][73] He was very consistent with his highest finish in 2017 a fourth place in Spain after two rivals collided at the start, and a third retired mid-race with a power unit failure.[74] He ended his streak of 17 points finishes as he ended up colliding with Daniil Kvyat in Monaco. He had a moment with his teammate in Canada when he would not allow his teammate through, who thought he could challenge Daniel Ricciardo for 3rd. He was again knocked out in Baku where he thought he could challenge for the win before colliding with Ocon. He finished 7th in Austria and moved up to 6th in the standings after Max Verstappen was out of the race on the first lap. He dropped to 7th in the championship after finishing 9th in Britain, behind his teammate and Verstappen finished 4th. He remained 7th in the standings for the rest of the season.\n
P\u00e9rez finished the first three races of the season outside the points. He then achieved his eighth career podium finish at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, finishing 3rd after an incident-strewn race. He passed then-championship leader Sebastian Vettel for 3rd place with a few laps to go, making him the first driver to finish on the podium twice at the Baku City Circuit (in 2016 and 2018). Another points finish came with 9th place in Spain. In France, he retired from the race with an engine failure. Three consecutive points finishes followed, with 7th-place finishes in Austria and Germany.\n
After the Hungarian Grand Prix, Force India was put into administration. This was caused by a group of creditors (including P\u00e9rez) taking legal action against the team. P\u00e9rez said that this action was taken to save the team and its employees from a winding-up order instigated by other creditors, which would have resulted in the team's collapse.[75] Shortly before the Belgian Grand Prix, Force India's assets were purchased by a consortium of investors led by Lawrence Stroll, father of Williams driver Lance Stroll. The team was re-admitted into the championship as a new team\u2014Racing Point Force India\u2014keeping P\u00e9rez and Ocon as their drivers. At the Belgian Grand Prix, the team came back strong with P\u00e9rez and Ocon qualifying 4th and 3rd, and finishing 5th and 6th, respectively.\n
P\u00e9rez took seven points finishes from nine races in the second half of the season. However, he faced criticism after a poor performance in Singapore. He collided with his teammate Ocon on the opening lap, causing Ocon to crash into a wall and retire from the race. He also collided with Sergey Sirotkin, an action that resulted in a drive-through penalty. He later stated that he thought his penalty was \"fair\".[76] He later suffered a brake failure and retired from his home race in Mexico. He ended the season in 8th place in the championship with 62 points, finishing ahead of teammate Ocon and being the only non-Mercedes, Ferrari or Red Bull driver to finish on the podium that season.\n
The 2019 season saw Racing Point Force India become Racing Point, retaining P\u00e9rez as a driver. He was joined at the team by former Williams driver Lance Stroll. Racing Point saw 2019 as a transitional season, with much of the work on that year's car being disrupted by the administration events of the previous year. A strong start to the season, including a 6th-place finish in Azerbaijan,[77] was followed by a string of eight races without points, the longest such string of his career. This included the rain-affected German Grand Prix, where he crashed out early in the race whilst teammate Stroll briefly led the race and eventually finished 4th.[78]\n
In a similar manner to 2018, P\u00e9rez fared far better during the second half of the season. Except for a retirement in Singapore due to an oil leak,[79] he scored points in every race after the summer break, including a strong 6th-place finish in Belgium.[80] Many of these points finishes came from low initial grid positions, including a 7th-place finish in Italy after starting 18th, 8th in Japan from 17th, and 10th in the United States[81] after starting from the pit lane.[82]\n
He finished the season in 10th place in the championship with 52 points, comfortably ahead of teammate Stroll.\n
\nPerez driving in Barcelona in 2020 during pre-season testing\n
P\u00e9rez had signed a contract extension with Racing Point, for whom he was meant to continue racing until the end of 2022.[83] Three days before the British Grand Prix, he tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes COVID-19. Due to this, he was unable to participate in the British Grand Prix. He was temporarily replaced by Nico H\u00fclkenberg. It was confirmed that he would also miss the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, as he had again tested positive for COVID-19.[84] After testing negative for COVID-19 after the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez returned to race at the Spanish Grand Prix, he qualified fourth and finished the race in fifth position.[85][86] In September 2020, P\u00e9rez announced that he would be leaving Racing Point at the end of the 2020 season.[87] He would be replaced by Sebastian Vettel as Racing Point become Aston Martin for the 2021 season.[88]\n
P\u00e9rez achieved his ninth F1 podium at the Turkish Grand Prix. After qualifying third in the rain, P\u00e9rez passed Max Verstappen and went from third to second, only behind his teammate Lance Stroll, starting with full wet rain tyres and changing for intermediate tyres on lap 10 of 58. P\u00e9rez inherited the lead after Stroll made a pitstop, and on lap 37 he got overtaken by Lewis Hamilton for the lead. The podium was Hamilton, P\u00e9rez and Sebastian Vettel.[89][90] P\u00e9rez was 3rd for the majority of the Bahrain Grand Prix after starting 5th, but an MGU-K electrical issue struck with only a few laps to go, forcing him to pull over and retire the car with flames billowing out of the power unit.\n
Since P\u00e9rez announced his departure from Racing Point there was support from the media for him, with The Race saying it will be a \"huge injustice were Perez not to be on the 2021 grid.\".[91] Former F1 driver and Sky Sports F1 commentator, Martin Brundle, also echoed similar thoughts in his online column review the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix where P\u00e9rez finished second and suggested that P\u00e9rez \"should be on Red Bull Racing's radar\" to partner Max Verstappen in place of Alex Albon.[92]\n
P\u00e9rez won his first race at the Sakhir Grand Prix, becoming Formula 1's 110th race winner. On the first lap, P\u00e9rez was hit by Leclerc and went from 2nd place to 18th and last. On lap 64 he took the lead and won the race ahead of Esteban Ocon and teammate Stroll. This was the first win for a Mexican driver since Pedro Rodr\u00edguez won the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix 50 years prior.[93][94]\n
P\u00e9rez finished the season with 125 points, scoring one win and one podium. He finished fourth overall which was his best ever championship result before joining Red Bull Racing, which he would later equal in 2021.\n
At the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez made his debut with the Red Bull Racing team finishing in 5th place. During qualifying on Saturday he came 11th.[97] During the formation lap for the race, his car switched off due to an electrical failure. He managed to reset his RB16B before having to start the race from the pitlane.[98]\n
At the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified on the front row in 2nd place, just 0.035 seconds behind polesitter Lewis Hamilton, outqualifying his teammate Max Verstappen in P3.[99] It was his first time starting on the front row in his career.\n
At the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified in 7th place, starting in 6th place due to a grid penalty for Lando Norris.[100][101] In the race he made a strong start, moving up to 3rd place by lap 8. In the pit stop window, he then passed Lewis Hamilton to take 2nd place. Having stayed in this position for most of the race, P\u00e9rez moved into the lead following a tyre failure for teammate Max Verstappen and he hit the wall on lap 47. With the race restarting on lap 50, Lewis Hamilton locked up and went off the track into turn 1 after the restart, and he remained in the lead for the final 2 laps to take the second win of his career and his first for Red Bull.[102]\n
At the 2021 French Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified in 4th place, starting behind Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas. In the race, he conserved his tyres up to lap 24. Due to his fresher tyres, he then passed Bottas to take 3rd place on lap 49. It was the first time in his career that he scored podiums on consecutive weekends.[103]\n
At the 2021 Styrian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified in 5th place, starting in 4th behind McLaren's Lando Norris after a penalty for Valtteri Bottas. He passed Norris early but lost a position to Bottas after a slow pitstop. Unable to pass the Mercedes, P\u00e9rez then switched strategies and pitted for fresh tyres and chased down Bottas in the final stages. He made up a 20-second deficit to catch Bottas on the final lap, but was unable to pass his rival for a 3rd consecutive finish on the podium and finished just half a second behind in 4th place.\n
On the way to the grid at the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez crashed, having skidded into the barriers at Les Combes. P\u00e9rez's car was fixed in time for the start of the race, although he was required to start from the back.[104] Ultimately, however, the race was red-flagged after just two laps under the safety car, resulting in a result of 20th place, although he was later promoted to 19th due to a penalty given to Lance Stroll.\n
At the Turkish Grand Prix, he finished third to score another podium finish, after an \"intense\" wheel to wheel battle with Lewis Hamilton in the wet.[105][106]\n
At the United States Grand Prix, Perez had one of his most competitive weekends of the season, out-qualifying the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas and starting 3rd behind teammate Verstappen and the other Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, before finishing in the same position, albeit over 42 seconds behind eventual winner Verstappen, due to a drinks failure on the first lap.\n
In his home race in Mexico, P\u00e9rez took his third consecutive podium, for the first time in his career. In the closing stages of the race, he was able to pressure Lewis Hamilton for 2nd place, but he was unable to pass Hamilton before the chequered flag.\n
At the season finale in Abu Dhabi, P\u00e9rez's defensive work against Hamilton helped his teammate Max Verstappen close a seven-second gap to Hamilton, which was crucial in Verstappen's title victory.[107] P\u00e9rez retired from the race a few laps from the end because of suspected engine problems.[108] Verstappen praised Perez after the race stating \"It's very rare to have a team mate like that ... he was a real team player and I really hope we can continue this for a long time.\"[109]\n
P\u00e9rez finished the season with 190 points, scoring 1 win and 5 podiums. He finished fourth overall, equalling his best championship result set in 2020.\n
P\u00e9rez stayed at Red Bull for the 2022 season.[110] In May 2022, shortly after his win in Monaco, it was announced P\u00e9rez would stay with the team until the end of the 2024 season.[12]\n
He achieved his first pole position at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, on his 215th race start in Formula 1; therefore breaking the record for most races before a first pole position and also becoming the first Mexican driver to achieve a pole position in F1.[111][5] He led the race until lap 16, where he pitted after coming under pressure from a potential undercut from Leclerc in 2nd. A crash from Nicholas Latifi on the same lap meant that the safety car was brought out, allowing Leclerc, Verstappen and Sainz to make a pitstop and keep track position, demoting Perez to 4th place, where he would finish the race.\n
At the Australian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified third. He lost a position at the start to Lewis Hamilton because of getting boxed in and got the position back on lap 10. He made his pitstop on lap 21 for hard tyres. P\u00e9rez passed Fernando Alonso and George Russell. On lap 39 his teammate Max Verstappen retired from the race due to mechanical problems and P\u00e9rez was then running second behind Charles Leclerc, which he held until the finish. P\u00e9rez got the sixteenth podium of his career and his sixth with Red Bull Racing.\n
In the next round, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified 7th as he was unable set a representative time in Q3 due to red flags. He recovered to 3rd in the sprint race. He jumped up to 2nd on the opening lap of the race, after beating Charles Leclerc off the line. Throughout most of the race, P\u00e9rez successfully prevented Leclerc from re-overtaking him. After Leclerc spun, P\u00e9rez subsequently coasted to 2nd, behind teammate Max Verstappen. This gave Red Bull their first 1-2 finish since the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix.\n
At the Spanish Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified 5th, citing not driving the car in FP1, where he was replaced by J\u00fcri Vips.[112] He overtook Carlos Sainz Jr. at the start and later fought with George Russell for third place, which turned into a battle for second after teammate Max Verstappen went wide. P\u00e9rez was unable to overtake Russell so he let Verstappen through, who too was unable to overtake Russell due to an issue with his DRS. On Lap 31, after not being allowed to switch with Verstappen by the team, P\u00e9rez overtook Russell on the medium tyres when his teammate pitted and took the lead of the race, Charles Leclerc having retired earlier. P\u00e9rez again let Verstappen through on lap 49, the team citing Verstappen being on the three stop compared to P\u00e9rez's two. P\u00e9rez finished in second place, behind Verstappen, giving Red Bull another 1-2 result.[113] P\u00e9rez was initially unsatisfied with the team orders despite being satisfied with the result, saying \"I'm definitely here to win and I think if I was on the three-stop, I should have won the race.\"[114]\n
At the Monaco Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified third, crashing at the Portier corner on his final attempt.[115][116] The race started in wet conditions with everyone on the full wet tyres. On Lap 17, P\u00e9rez pitted onto intermediate tyres from third place, later taking the lead on Lap 22 after Sainz pitted. P\u00e9rez pit the same lap for the slick hard tyres, and still emerged in the lead after a good out-lap. After a red flag, P\u00e9rez restarted the race on medium tyres. His tyres degraded quickly and both Ferrari cars and his teammate were right behind him, but unable to overtake. The race hit the three-hour limit, and P\u00e9rez held on to win the third race of his Formula One career, from Sainz and his teammate Verstappen.[117]\n
P\u00e9rez qualified 2nd for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, 2 tenths behind Charles Leclerc due to power loss and lack of a tow. In the race he jumped Leclerc on the start and built a 2.5 second gap, which he maintained until his teammate Max Verstappen overtook him on Lap 14 after the order \"no fighting\" was issued to P\u00e9rez if Verstappen were to try to overtake him. P\u00e9rez was unable to keep up with Verstappen, attributing it to tyre degradation. He finished 2nd to Verstappen, with Leclerc having retired. P\u00e9rez scored the 20th podium of his Formula One career.[118]\n
At the British Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez started fourth. Due to a turn four crash he was forced to pit for a new front wing which dropped him down to 17th. After a safety car, he recovered and was battling Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc for second, where he ultimately finished. He also was voted the 'Driver of the day'.[119][120]\n
At the Belgian Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified third but was promoted to second due to his teammate's grid penalties. Team principal Christian Horner said it was tactical to not start on the pole due to the slipstream effect, which could help a driver take the lead going into the Les Combes corner.[121] P\u00e9rez had a bad start and was attacked by the two Mercedes cars, but eventually moved back into second. After the pit stops played out, P\u00e9rez ultimately finished second behind his teammate Verstappen, giving Red Bull another 1-2 finish.[122]\n
P\u00e9rez qualified second for the Singapore Grand Prix behind Charles Leclerc. He overtook Leclerc at the start and led every lap. The race was shortened to 59 laps because of the 3 hour time limit due to safety cars and an hour-long delay. He won with a 7.5 second advantage to Leclerc. Post-race, he was investigated for a safety car infringement; ultimately his win was allowed to stand, with him receiving a reprimand and a 5-second penalty.[123] He was voted Driver of the Day at the same Grand Prix.[124]\n
At the Japanese Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified fourth. In the race, Carlos Sainz Jr. retired after a crash, meaning P\u00e9rez ran third for most of the race. On the final lap, he pressured second placed Charles Leclerc into a mistake. Leclerc cut across the Casio Triangle, and blocked P\u00e9rez from making an overtake. Leclerc was awarded a 5-second time penalty, which elevated P\u00e9rez to second in the race, giving Red Bull their fifth 1-2 result of the season. The penalty also meant his teammate Max Verstappen won the championship.[125]\n
At his home race in Mexico, P\u00e9rez qualified fourth and overtook George Russell to once again finish on the podium in third place, behind Lewis Hamilton and teammate Verstappen.[126]\n
During the next round in S\u00e3o Paulo, P\u00e9rez qualified ninth under tricky circumstances, elevating himself to fifth place during the Sprint race. In the race he managed to run third for most of the time, but was caught out by a Safety Car with himself on Medium tyres compared to everyone else's Soft tyres. With an already slow car, P\u00e9rez dropped back to sixth place. He let teammate Verstappen past with the understanding that Verstappen would let P\u00e9rez back past if he could not gain any positions, due to P\u00e9rez' fight with Leclerc for second place in the drivers championship. Verstappen didn't let P\u00e9rez back past, which left P\u00e9rez disappointed. Post race P\u00e9rez said the matter was \"discussed internally\" and they are going to put it \"behind\" themselves.[127]\n
At the final round in Abu Dhabi, P\u00e9rez and Leclerc were tied on 290 points for second place. In qualifying, P\u00e9rez received a tow from his teammate on his final flying lap and qualified second, ahead of Leclerc. During the race, P\u00e9rez switched to a two stop pitstop strategy, pitting opposite of Leclerc. He lost time fighting Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso, as he went wide at the chicane while attempting an overtake. He later made the same mistake while overtaking Lewis Hamilton, again losing time. Finally, he was held up by Pierre Gasly who was getting lapped, but was engaged in a battle of his own didn't quickly concede the position. Eventually P\u00e9rez finished 1.4 seconds behind Leclerc in third place which meant he ended up third in the 2022 Drivers Standings.[128]\n
P\u00e9rez finished the season with 305 points, with 2 wins, 1 pole position, 11 podiums and 3 fastest laps, his best season in Formula 1 yet.\n
At the season opener in Bahrain, P\u00e9rez was even with teammate Verstappen in their last qualifying laps until the final corners, where oversteer moments cost him pole by nearly 0.15 seconds. In the race, he initially lost position to Charles Leclerc, which he later recovered. He then finished second, about 11 seconds behind Verstappen.[129]\n
At the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Verstappen had a technical issue that saw him knocked out in Q2. P\u00e9rez then went on to take his second career pole position. He lost position to Fernando Alonso at the start, which he quickly regained. Teammate Verstappen climbed up to 2nd place from 15th, but P\u00e9rez' slightly faster pace meant he won the race by nearly 5 seconds, his fifth career victory and first one in the 2023 season.[130]\n
At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez managed to qualify second for the sprint race on Saturday and third for the Sunday race. Winning both the sprint race and Grand Prix, he closed the gap between himself in second place and Max Verstappen in first place in the Drivers' Championship to 6 points. His sixth overall career victory, it also makes P\u00e9rez the first and, to date, only driver to win the Azerbaijan Grand Prix more than once, having also done so in 2021.[131]\n
At the Miami Grand Prix, P\u00e9rez qualified in pole position after an error from Ferrari's Charles Leclerc caused a red flag late in the session. This brought the session to a close and P\u00e9rez's teammate Max Verstappen was unable to set a time after aborting his first lap in Q3. In the race, P\u00e9rez was overtaken by Verstappen when he pitted on lap 21. He briefly regained the lead on lap 46 when Verstappen pitted for mediums but eventually conceded the lead to his teammate who would go on to win the race.[132]\n
After a string of bad luck and errors saw P\u00e9rez neither make Q3 for the next five races nor the podium for the next three, P\u00e9rez qualified second behind Verstappen for the sprint race in Austria. He tussled with Verstappen for the lead but eventually finished second. In the race, he finished in third place from his grid position of fifteenth.[133]\n
In Hungary, P\u00e9rez finished third after qualifying in ninth and also got Driver of the Day.[134][135]\n
P\u00e9rez qualified third in Belgium, a few tenths behind Charles Leclerc but started second due to teammate Verstappen's gearbox penalty. He qualified eighth for the Sprint Shootout after not getting to complete a final lap, and due to damage after contact with Hamilton could not finish the sprint. In the race he overtook Leclerc on the first lap. He later lost the lead to Verstappen and finished second.[136]\n
After narrowly missing out on the podium in the Netherlands,[137] in Italy he qualified fifth despite an engine issue in FP3. He started behind both Ferraris, Verstappen and Russell. In the race he started on medium tyres, overtook Russell, and later pitted for hard tyres. He narrowly missed out on undercutting both Ferraris but overtook them anyway, finishing second.[138]\n
After finishing 8th in Singapore and retiring in Japan two times in one race which allowed Lewis Hamilton to close up to him in the fight for second in the championship, P\u00e9rez entered Qatar needing to outscore teammate Verstappen by 32 points to keep his title hopes alive but he qualified 13th for the main race and 8th for the sprint. In the sprint he was making progress when he got collected by Esteban Ocon after the Alpine driver collided with Nico H\u00fclkenberg and spun into P\u00e9rez. The damage ended his race which knocked him out of title contention confirming Verstappen as the 2023 World Champion. He finished 10th in the main race after multiple penalties.[139]\n
In November 2012, P\u00e9rez unveiled the Checo P\u00e9rez Foundation to support orphans and children with cancer. His sister Paola is the foundation's president.[142]\n
^Strang, Simon (15 April 2012). \"Sauber duo disappointed with Chinese Grand Prix result after qualifying promise\". Autosport. Archived from the original on 17 April 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2012. Actually I feel I would have been better off with a three stop strategy, but you never know. The pit stops as such were good, but at both I lost time at the launch because we had a problem with the clutch. However, this is racing and we will do better next time.\n
^\"Europe Saturday quotes: Sauber\". Autosport. 23 June 2012. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2012. For me the car's balance wasn't good in qualifying, and the car felt a bit unpredictable.\n
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Carlos Sainz scored his debut F1 victory in 2022, but was unable to match Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc over the course of the season. The Spaniard will enter into his fourth year with the Scuderia in 2024.
Carlos Sainz Jr was destined for Formula 1 from an early age, inheriting a racing mentality from his father, two-time World Rally Champion Carlos Sainz Sr, and later securing a junior partnership with Red Bull.
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Sainz's journey to his current position alongside Charles Leclerc at Ferrari has been extensive, beginning with his involvement in the karting circuit and progressing through the Red Bull junior program.
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Now 28, he boasts eight seasons of Formula 1 experience and aspires to contend for championships with the Scuderia in the upcoming years.
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Curious about how Carlos Sainz made his way into F1? Discover all the details in the biography of Carlos Sainz.
Sainz kicked off his motorsport career in karting, competing across his native Spain and winning multiple trophies including the Asia-Pacific KF3 title and the Junior Monaco Kart Cup.
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In 2010, he moved up to open-wheel cars to race with the Eurointernational team in Formula BMW Europe, and that year also signed a deal which brought him into the Red Bull setup.
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During that season, he secured two wins and three pole positions across nine events, including a victory on his debut weekend, which caught the attention of Red Bull development head Helmut Marko.
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Sainz continued to race in the series the following year, as well as the UK Formula Renault Winter Cup, before getting a call up to race for Carlin in the British and Euro Series Formula 3 championships for 2012.
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That year with Carlin, he scored four race wins and finished on the podium nine times, placing sixth overall in the British championship and ninth in the Euro series.
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For 2013, Sainz joined Arden, the team co-owned by Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, to help him develop as a member of the junior programme.
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Driving alongside future Red Bull driver Daniil Kvyat, Sainz had an up and down season, struggling to consistently score points despite a podium in Valencia after starting from fourth.
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Sainz went on to race in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series; in 2013 he lost out on multiple weekends due to retirements, and for 2014 switched teams to DAMS, where he managed to put together a title challenge.
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Sainz won the second race of the 2014 season at Monza and quickly followed it up with victories at Aragon and Spa-Francorchamps (doing the double in Belgium). Another win at the Nurburgring and a double at Paul Ricard helped him towards the championship crown over Pierre Gasly.
During the 2013 season, Sainz had tested for both Red Bull and Toro Rosso as part of the Young Drivers' Test at Silverstone, and by 2015 his performances had earned him a call-up to race for Toro Rosso in F1.
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Driving alongside Max Verstappen following Kvyat's promotion to Red Bull, Sainz made a solid impression on his race debut in Australia, finishing ninth.
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However, at that year's Russian Grand Prix, during the third practice session, he lost control of the car at Turn 13 and slammed into the wall, causing him to spend the night in hospital.
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Despite the crash, Sainz competed in the race, though did not finish. He went on to score his last points of the year with seventh at the United States Grand Prix, finishing his maiden season 15th in the Drivers' Championship.
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Sainz was retained by Toro Rosso for the 2016 season and, while he managed to score points more consistently, he still suffered a dry streak in the middle of the year, and finished 12th overall in the standings with a total of 46 points.
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The following year, Sainz was comfortably within the top 10 for much of the season, including seventh in Australia and Spain, sixth in Monaco and fourth in Singapore. However, he also suffered further retirements in Canada, after a crash with Romain Grosjean, and in Japan after another incident.
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Having failed to land a promotion to the main Red Bull team, he signed a deal to join Renault in the closing stages of the 2017 season.
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Departing from the Red Bull family, Sainz made the transition to Renault for the final four rounds of the 2017 season, joining forces with Nico Hulkenberg as the replacement for Jolyon Palmer. This move marked his first inclusion in the top 10 of the standings throughout his F1 career.
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Despite this achievement, there were notable incidents, such as his retirement from the Mexican Grand Prix due to steering issues following a high-speed spin. Following this event, he failed to secure points for the remaining races of the year.
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In 2018, Sainz initiated the season strongly, earning points in five of the first six races. However, he still trailed behind his teammate Hulkenberg, concluding the season in 10th place overall with a total of 53 points.
Sainz made another move for the 2018 season to replace his countryman, the retiring Fernando Alonso, at McLaren.
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Driving alongside Lando Norris, Sainz had a tough start to life with his new team as he finished out of the points due to reliability issues in Australia, and was involved in crashes in China and Bahrain.
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However, after the rough beginnings, Sainz got to grips with his new car and started to consistently score points, with the McLaren proving capable of competing at the top of the midfield.
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The hard work was rewarded with a first Formula 1 podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after he was promoted to third place following Lewis Hamilton's penalty for a crash with Alex Albon. Overall he finished sixth in the Drivers' Championship.
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In the COVID-19-disrupted 2020 season, Sainz remained at Woking and kicked off the campaign with two fifth-place finishes during the opening double-header at the Red Bull Ring in Austria, setting a new track record in the process.
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He was forced out of the British Grand Prix due to a tyre puncture and registered a did not start (DNS) at the race in Belgium due to a power unit issue, but Sainz would go on to score his best career finish of second during a hectic Italian Grand Prix.
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Sainz had qualified in third and drove a strong race \u2013 in which several Safety Cars were brought out \u2013 to secure his spot on the podium, losing out by only a few seconds to the AlphaTauri of Pierre Gasly.
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The Spaniard finished the 2020 season in sixth place for the second consecutive year, with a career-high 105 points and six top-five finishes.
During the 2020 season, Ferrari announced that they would not be renewing Sebastian Vettel's contract for 2021 and so the hunt was on for a replacement.
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They landed on Sainz, who left McLaren for a two-year deal with the Scuderia to partner Charles Leclerc from the 2021 campaign.
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Sainz qualified in eigth on his debut for the team at the Bahrain Grand Prix, and scored his first points as a Ferrari driver by finishing the race in the same position.
This strong run included three more podiums, at Hungary, Russia and Abu Dhabi, though the P3 result at the Hungaroring only came after the race, when Sainz was promoted due to Sebastian Vettel being disqualified.
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Ferrari seemed to make progress throughout the 2021 campaign, and looked to have gotten ahead of rivals McLaren as the season headed towards its close. In the end, the team were able to beat their competitors to secure third place in the Constructors' Championship.
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Sainz also had an impressive finish to the year. The Spaniard secured fifth in the World Championship standings, outscoring teammate Leclerc in seventh.
With a wave of new technical regulations coming into effect for the 2022 F1 season, there was a degree of uncertainty about how the pecking order could look.
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Ferrari looked to have the edge when the campaign got underway, with Sainz following Leclerc home for a 1-2 finish at the opening race in Bahrain.
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However, there were difficult weekends to follow for Sainz at the Australian and Emilia Romagna Grands Prix, where a spin on Lap 3 and an early collision with Daniel Ricciardo led to respective retirements at each event.
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Sainz bounced back to record several points finishes before a dream weekend for the Spaniard at Silverstone saw him claim both pole position and his debut F1 victory.
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It proved to be Sainz's only win of the year as Ferrari's championship challenge fell away due to strategy problems, driver errors and reliability woes.
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Sainz ultimately finished the season P5 in the World Championship standings.
Sainz will enter into his third season as a Ferrari driver in 2023, having signed a contract extension that will keep him at the Scuderia until the end of 2024.
The Spaniard experienced three DNFs and one DNS in the 2023 season. However, race by race, he collected more and more points for the team. He won the Singapore Grand Prix and reached three podiums. Unfortunately, Ferrari came three points short in the battle for the second place in the constructors' championship to Mercedes. In the last race of the season, the Spaniard unfortunately had a DNF late in the race, which came at a cost to Ferrari for the constructors' championship.
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Will Scuderia Ferrari have better results in the 2024 season, and will Carlos Sainz be able to compete for the world championship title?
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