![]() The drive, which Perez hailed as his best performance yet, earned him his fourth career win and second this season, with the Mexican also victorious at Monaco in May.īut it also forced team mate Verstappen to delay his title celebrations. "I gave everything for the win today," added Perez who pushed hard in the closing stages to open up enough of a gap to Leclerc to cover a penalty. "I controlled the race," said the 32-year-old, who started alongside pole-sitter Leclerc on the front row and snatched the lead from him off the line on a wet track. He also collected a reprimand and two penalty points. Perez, whose win forced Red Bull team mate Max Verstappen, who finished seventh, to put his championship celebrations on ice, was found to have fallen more than 10 car lengths behind the safety car on three occasions over the course of two safety car periods. The penalty meant Perez was still classified ahead of Leclerc in the final results, albeit by only 2.5 seconds.Ĭarlos Sainz in the other Ferrari was third. The Red Bull driver took the chequered flag 7.5 seconds ahead of his Monegasque rival after a slow burner, rain-delayed race interrupted by two safety car and five virtual safety car periods and called at its two-hour time limit after 59 of 61 laps. ![]() ![]() SINGAPORE, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Mexican Sergio Perez put in the drive of his life to take victory ahead of Charles Leclerc in Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix but his victory margin was later slashed as he collected a five-second time penalty for a safety car infringement.
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