MERAHPUTIH.COM – PEREZ experienced an incident during a wet and dry race at the Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Montreal, when he hit a wet road with a tire tablecloth on the right side of the car. As a result, he hit the barriers at Turn 6 on Lap 53, causing serious damage to the rear wing of his Red Bull.

The team asked him to bring the car back to ditch even though it is in a very damaged condition. All the way to the escape route, Perez’s car dropped debris from his RB20.

The FIA ​​is investigating Red Bull and Perez for allegedly breaking rules by failing to immediately stop the damaged car. As a result, they were found guilty of violating sporting rules and Perez was sanctioned. grids three places for the next race in Barcelona. The team was also fined 25,000 euros.

In court, Red Bull admitted asking Perez to stay on track to avoid crash safety carbecause his teammate, Max Verstappen, led the race with 5 seconds ahead of Lando Norris.

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Para stewards explaining his decision: “After hitting the barriers in Turn 6, the driver continued on the track with a badly damaged car, causing several carbon fiber parts to detach on pit road.”

The team tries to avoid it safety car asking Perez to drive the car to the pits. However, the paragraph stewards the assessment of financial and sporting sanctions is necessary due to security risks.(waf)

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