On 4 October 2010, Sauber announced that Sergio Perez would join the team for their 2011 campaign. In November 2012, Perez unveiled the Checo Pérez Foundation to support orphans and children with cancer - his sister Paola would also be involved with the project, as its president. Perez is a big football fan, and he reportedly at one point thought about leaving motor racing to play professionally - he is friends with former Manchester United and West Ham United striker Javier Hernández. It looked likely that his Formula 1 career was over, but Red Bull announced post-season they'd signed him, the Mexican driver handed another renewal in 2022 that runs through to the end of 2024. It wasn't quite the break into a top team he had hoped for though and, after failing to make the podium, Perez's time with McLaren ended after just one season.įrom there he would join Force India, helping to save the team from collapse in 2018 before continuing with them under their new identity of Racing Point.Ģ020 was an eventful year for "Checo" as he won his first Grand Prix from the bottom of the grid in Sakhir and finished fourth in the final standings, all on the backdrop of the announcement halfway through the season that he was being replaced at Racing Point.
Perez would finish on the podium three times in 2012, including P2s in Malaysia and Italy, earning him a drive at McLaren for 2013 where he replaced Lewis Hamilton, who had left to join Mercedes. Perez made his debut in F1 with Sauber at the 2011 Australian Grand Prix, at the time he was still a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy and remained so until 2012.Ģ011 proved to be a proud year for Perez as he took his first steps into F1, but a heavy crash during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix was an unwelcome reminder of the danger of the sport.
Sergio Perez is a Mexican Formula 1 driver who was born in Guadalajara on 26 January 1990.
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