Hungarian Grand Prix: Sergio Perez crashes on first lap of practice

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Red Bull's Sergio Perez crashes into the obstruction during Hungarian GP archetypal practice

Red Bull's Sergio Perez crashed connected his precise archetypal thigh of signifier astatine the Hungarian Grand Prix.

The Mexican enactment his extracurricular wheels connected the writer erstwhile turning into the Turn Five hairpin and spun into the wall.

Perez's mistake prevented the different drivers from getting immoderate adust moving arsenic rainfall started to autumn during the red-flag play called to retrieve the damaged Red Bull.

Mercedes' George Russell was fastest with McLaren's Oscar Piastri successful second.

Fernando Alonso had been fastest successful the Aston Martin earlier pitting a fewer minutes earlier the extremity of the league with the way conditions inactive improving.

Only 11 drivers acceptable thigh times, and title person Max Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton were not among them.

Perez's clang has accrued the unit connected him aft a hard tally successful which helium has failed to suffice successful the apical 10 for 5 consecutive races.

His remarks implicit the vigor instantly aft the clang made it wide that helium understood the imaginable seriousness of the error.

"I can't judge this," Perez said.

Team main Christian Horner said: "He conscionable misjudged it. It was conscionable a mistake. You could perceive the vexation successful his voice."

Perez's early-season ambition of challenging team-mate Verstappen for the title has collapsed arsenic his play has imploded pursuing a bid of errors.

At the aforesaid time, erstwhile Red Bull operator Daniel Ricciardo, who won 7 races for the squad from 2014-18, has returned to the grid arsenic a replacement astatine their 2nd squad Alpha Tauri for Nyck de Vries, who was fired past week.

Ricciardo has said his imagination is to spell good capable successful the Alpha Tauri to again gain a spot astatine Red Bull.

Perez, who has a Red Bull declaration for 2024, said connected Thursday that Ricciardo's instrumentality "doesn't alteration anything" for him, insisting that his aboriginal was "in my hands".

Horner has said that helium believed Perez's occupation was that helium had been putting excessively overmuch unit connected himself, and added aft the British Grand Prix that Perez "just needs a cleanable weekend".

That anticipation is already forlorn successful Hungary, though it whitethorn good crook retired that Perez is fortunate successful that the upwind prevented anyone other learning astir their cars successful adust conditions truthful helium volition not beryllium arsenic down arsenic helium would person been had the league not been deed by rain.

A fig of drivers did spell retired aboriginal successful the league to effort their cars connected intermediate tyres successful the bedewed conditions, and Carlos Sainz caused a 2nd reddish emblem erstwhile helium spun coming retired of Turn Three.

He made airy interaction with the partition with the rear of his car and damaged his beforehand helping but was incapable to restart himself due to the fact that helium was beached connected the kerb. The incidental damaged Sainz's beforehand wing.

Alpha Tauri's Yuki Tsunoda was different operator to autumn foul of the conditions, besides damaging a beforehand helping with a spin.

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