Sergio Perez can’t believe what happened after scary Monaco GP crash
Sergio Perez crashed out on lap one of the Monaco Grand Prix after contact from Kevin Magnussen in an incident which also forced the other Haas of Kevin Magnussen to retire
Sergio Perez after crashing out of the Monaco Grand Prix (
Sergio Perez said he was “shaken” after his hefty Monaco Grand Prix crash and expressed his surprise that the stewards chose not to investigate the incident.
The crash capped a wretched weekend for Perez and Red Bull as a whole. He struggled in qualifying and failed to even make it out of Q1, going only 18th fastest but was promoted to two races when both Haas cars were disqualified for a technical breach.
They were allowed to start the race from the back of the grid. But both of them were out of the running again, along with Perez, after the incident at turn two which saw the race stopped.
Kevin Magnussen made contact with the rear tyre of the Red Bull and Perez was sent spinning into the wall. After the heavy impact, debris was thrown across the track and Nico Hulkenberg was caught up in the melee, also suffering terminal damage.
Race control noted the incident but it wasn’t long before confirmation came that there would be no further investigation into the cause of the pile-up. And, speaking after the race, Perez could not quite believe that it had not at least been looked into.
He said: “It was a little bit shaky from me. It was quite a heavy impact. If you see my onboard at no point, you see Kevin’s car not even close to me, alongside me, and you could see that the wall is just getting closer and closer and to keep it flat out. There was only one way out of it.
“It was either contact with my car, with the barrier, there were just simply no room for both cars. And at some point he had to realise that, you know, I’ve been in that location and many times when you are the car behind, you just have to realise that it’s time to back off, before things get closer to you.