Perez unhappy with strategy after failing to progress from 10th · RaceFans

Red Bull driver Sergio Perez was unhappy with his strategy in Singapore after he finished 10th, spending the majority of the race in the same position.

Perez started from 13th on the grid, gaining three positions on the opening lap to run behind Williams rookie Franco Colapinto

Perez spent 11 of the first 12 laps of the race within DRS range of Colapinto but was unable to attempt a pass on the Williams. He remained behind Colapinto until lap 28, when he pitted for hard tyres before the Williams and was able to undercut him.

However, Perez lost a place through the pits to Carlos Sainz Jnr, having passed the Ferrari driver on the opening lap. Having rejoined behind Nico Hulkenberg, Perez was unable to overtake the Haas despite spending a dozen laps within DRS range.

He gradually dropped away from Hulkenberg to finish behind him in 10th place. Perez was lapped by race winner Lando Norris in the closing stages.

Asked after the race if he was disappointed to have been unable to make more progress in the race, Perez replied: “In a way, yes.”

“I think also the strategy, looking at it, when you see where Carlos finished we probably lost an opportunity to make more progress and undercut more people,” he told the official F1 channel. “But once we went on a similar tyre age behind Nico, it was pretty much it.”

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Having been unable to find a way to overtake both Colapinto and Hulkenberg over the course of the race, Perez is frustrated not to have finished even higher up from where he started.

“It was just a disaster. A complete disaster,” he said.

“We had a good lap one and we were up to tenth and it was basically where we finished. So a bit of a shame in that regard.”