With two laps to go in the race last Sunday in Baku and the third step of the podium at stake, Carlos Sainz And “Checo” PerezThey crashed and went against the wall.
After the accident, circles of both sides accused each other, but only the pilots really knew what happened and what each of them did on the Azerbaijani track.
When they got out of the car, they both went to the medical center, where they met and talked about what had happened. A week later, already in Singapore, the two drivers explained what had happened at that meeting.
“We sat uncomfortably next to each other. for 20 minutes at the medical center. We looked at each other and were like, ‘Dude, what happened there?’ And we were like, ‘I don’t know. But I promise you I didn’t do anything wrong to you, Checo. I didn’t shut you down. I didn’t do anything.‘”, Sainz explained.
“After those 20 minutes, we said to ourselves: ‘This sport sucks sometimes. How can we miss the podium? “We had the podium,” he added.
“Charles was out of tires. We were probably both going to get him. And we were both sitting there wondering, ‘How the hell did we not finish on the podium?’ In the end we joked about it, so we didn’t hold any grudges.” he settled.
“Checo”, for his part, also spoke about that feeling of disappointment that they both felt: “Once we took off our helmets, we realized we both messed upthat finishing a race like that was really disappointing.
“We were at the medical center and they were monitoring us, we were both fine and we both wanted to leave as soon as possible because we were both great, super sad about the result“, Perez said.
After the tension of the moment and once their points of view had been expressed face to face at the medical center, the Madrilenians and the Mexicans were quick to reconcile their positions and iron out their differences.
