Former F1 driver Martin Brundle wasat a loss to explain Sergio Perez's crash in FP1 for the Hungarian Grand Prix. The Mexican dippeda wheel onto the grass on the entry to Turn 5, spinning into the barriers andcausing extensive damage to the suspension, front wing, floor and sidepod afteronly four minutes of running at the Hungaroring. Perez's mechanics were able to fixthe damage in time for the Mexican to take part in FP2, in which he finished a lowly 18th, but Red Bull MotorsportAdvisor Helmut Marko confirmed that Perez has no remaining spare parts for the restof the weekend. "I can't get my head aroundthat. It is a rookie error," Brundle told Sky F1 of Perez’s crash. "I think back to his victories earlier this year, hisbrilliant victory in Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan, his utterly brilliant victorylast year in Singapore on a drying track in one of the most challenging races Ihave seen for a long time where he was perfect, and then he does that. "I can only assume it'spressure because he didn't just clip the edge of the grass or the white line,he was on the grass by a metre or something and I can't get my head around itat all."
Perez crash hindered upgrade understanding
Perez's crash is the latest in aserious of errors the Mexican has made lately, with him having failed toqualify in the top ten for five consecutive races. Red Bull have brought an upgradepackage to the Hungarian Grand Prix featuring a new sidepod design, and Brundlenoted that Perez's reduced running will have affected the team's understandingof the new parts. "Red Bull want him glued to Verstappen's gearbox when he'snot winning, maximising the points. What they don't want him doing is throwingall the new upgraded sidepods and bits and pieces in the fence. "Then they didn't get much runningin the other car in the dry when they've got quite an extreme cooling situationgoing on there with the sidepods. "They needed to get up and running and the level that they'reat, the experience the drivers have got at Red Bull, they did not need that carin the wall. "Sergio is so rock solid. All through his career, he's notbeen that dynamic sometimes, he goes on the missing list sometimes, but he is fast,consistent, keeps the tyres intact. "So all of these errors are soinconsistent with how his Formula 1 career has been."
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