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For his part, Perez – who’s watched team mate Max Verstappen claim seven wins out of 10 so far in 2024, with Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris claiming the other three – said he had at least taken good learnings from an otherwise challenging Barcelona weekend – with Red Bull coming under increasing pressure from rivals Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren.
“It’s been a good weekend in terms of learning, understanding, so hopefully we are able to come back in the coming weekends,” said Perez.
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“[Barcelona’s] probably one of the hardest places to overtake, it’s where you damage your tyres the most in dirty air. So yeah, I’m pretty disappointed. But I think given where we started, it was pretty much the maximum we could do.
“We had to really fight hard to get those points because the race wasn’t as straightforward as I hoped it would be, so we struggled quite a bit.”
Perez’s struggles mean he currently sits P5 in the drivers’ standings, behind Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc and Sainz, and a full 118 points adrift of his team mate.
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