While Perez struggled for the most part to keep up with Verstappen, a maiden F1 pole position in Saudi Arabia - his first in a record 215 attempts - and a trio of second place results early on at Albert Park, Imola and in Miami preceded a memorable third victory of his career in the blue riband Monaco Grand Prix.

Perez’s sophomore season in Red Bull Racing colours coincided with F1’s shift to a new era of technical regulations and the team’s full takeover of Honda’s engine building programme.Īfter shrugging off Red Bull’s humbling technical woes during the opening round in Bahrain, Perez settled into consistent front-running form that exercised the RB18’s status as the car to beat during the 2022 F1 season. While a prized seat at McLaren failed to live up to expectations in 2013, his ensuing move to Force India the following year marked the start of an eight-year relationship that yielded seven podiums and - finally - a maiden victory in his penultimate outing, paving the way for his move to Red Bull Racing in 2021.Īhead of the opening round for the 2023 F1 World Championship season, Perez had achieved four wins, 26 podiums and 1 pole position in 235 grand prix starts. Tracing the path of many legends before him by establishing himself on the British domestic single-seater scene, Perez’s giant-killing performances in British F3 driving an older specification, National class T-Sport Dallara in 2007 turned heads before battling it out for overall honours in 2008 en route to fourth.Įarning him a promotion to the GP2 Series for 2009, five wins took him to the runner-up spot with Barwa Addax and with it the attention of notorious ‘talent scout’ Peter Sauber, who added him to his eponymous team’s driver line-up for 2011. A stalwart of the Formula 1 grid, Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez has bucked the trend of most drivers before him by achieving his greatest successes in the series more than a decade on from his debut.Ĭultivating a reputation as a trusted hand capable of headline-grabbing performances in lesser fancied machinery on his day, while it took a record-breaking 190 grands prix for him to taste the winners’ champagne, a chance opportunity to join Red Bull Racing has seen him bloom into a regular podium winner.

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