It heralded the start of an annus horribilis for Perez, who began struggling with the car from the next round in Barcelona and missed Q3 stunning five times in a row – qualifying just ninth in the Hungarian race that broke that streak – an unacceptable calamity in the field’s dominant car.
When asked by Autosport in a limited roundtable interview why Perez waited until after Qatar to take action and demand a brainstorming session, he replied: “Because Qatar was really the worst weekend I remember in a while, probably my worst weekend ever in the sport.
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Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing RB19, Zhou Guanyu, Alfa Romeo C43
“It was such a bad weekend that I really felt like: ‘I cannot be this bad, there’s something that’s going on’.
“When you have these back-to-back races, I feel like sometimes there is not enough time to really go through it all. So, I felt like we really had to take a bit of time to make sure that we understood which way we were going.
“Obviously, we had a deficit within the car set-up that we were playing around [with] weekend by weekend and we were just not able to progress through it.
“But once we managed to get on top of…
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