Sergio Perez To Leave Red Bull | Checo's Best Moments At The Team

Sergio Pérez! Sergio Pérez! Sergio Pérez! This is how we do it, man. We shut our mouth and we work hard. This is the Mexican way. Oh, Pérez trying to go past two of them in one corner and doing so. Two for the price of one to get past Lawson and Magnussen with one of the moves of the Grand Prix so far. It's lights out and away we go and Leclerc gets away well. Look at Sergio Pérez up to third place. What a drive so far. Hard compound time for Sergio Pérez. There's a problem at the rear. 4.3 second stop for Pérez. That's undone. All his good work. Look at... Oh! And it's Max Verstappen! Max Verstappen on the main straight. Sergio Pérez leads. The red flag has now come out. Pérez on pole. Hamilton alongside him on the front row. Pérez gets away well. Hamilton with wheelspin. Sebastian Vettel is coming at them as well. Pérez tries to cut off Hamilton. He locks up and goes straight on. Pérez leads from Sebastian Vettel. Sergio Pérez moved teams over the winter. Went to Red Bull in his sixth race for his new team. Sergio Pérez wins the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Pérez picks up the points. Well done, Sergio! Well done. Thank you for finishing that off for us. Great job. This is for you, guys. That was epic, Taka. That was epic. Pérez seems to have that straight-line speed advantage over Hamilton. Hamilton, though, close enough now to be picking up the slipstream of the Red Bull in front. And Hamilton gaining as the wheels turn round. And now goes wheel-to-wheel with Sergio Pérez. And does he pass Sergio Pérez? Under braking, he gives the Red Bull a wide berth, just in case he knows that he can make this move stick in the next few corners. He pushes Sergio Pérez almost into the pit lane entry. Pérez is not going to give this one up without a fight. And they are almost level-pegging as they start the next lap. Hamilton's got better acceleration as down towards Turn 1 we go. Has Hamilton got up into fourth place? No, he's not. Sergio Pérez on the inside regains the place that he might have lost by millimetres a few hundred metres before. And Formula 1 is underway on the streets of Baku. Good reaction time for Verstappen, but it's Charles Leclerc who maintains the lead into Turn 1. The barn door opens and Pérez takes a dart to the inside. It's a Red Bull 1-2. Verstappen being told to come into the pits and Pérez will assume the lead at a circuit he adores. The street fighter's done it again. Sergio Pérez wins in Azerbaijan. King of the streets. Well done, guys. Ah, we dominated this weekend. Ah, well done, guys. Pérez is right there with Verstappen. Leclerc is behind him. And now Lewis Hamilton and Landon Norris are battling. Look at this, all four together. Pérez has got damage to his front wing. The work he's going on at Red Bull, they've done it and they've sent him on his way. Pérez up the inside. Oh, Hamilton's now got the inside. Gets squeezed off. Oh, he won't like that. I've never seen a race like this at Silverstone. There you go, P2. What a recovery. That's a mega, mega drive, Checo. Well done from the back of the grid with a nose change. Really proud of you for that one. Yeah, good job, guys. Well done to everyone. It's been a while. Lewis will be nervous at the back of the Red Bull and Pérez will have a lunge up the inside. Inevitably, Lewis cuts back underneath him and that's exactly what we expected to happen. He will now drive past him, give him a cheery little wave. And that was about all Pérez could do, or was it? Pérez with DRS is coming back into Turn 9. Can Pérez make it into Turn 9? He's saved up a bit of energy from that battery store and with a bit of DRS, possibly as well, has blasted past Lewis Hamilton. So he is going to hold him up just that little extra bit. They make their way round the final two turns. Hamilton's going to try and get Pérez into Turn 1. He'll have to go the long way round the outside to do it and can't quite do it. Pérez playing the ultimate team game here for Max Verstappen. Hamilton does get past Pérez, but Pérez has played the ultimate team game and he's really brought his teammate back into play. It's Pérez and Bottas in the pit lane and the Australian Grand Prix is go! Good reaction time for George Russell, putting the pressure on Max Verstappen. In the background goes Charles Leclerc into the gravel trap and off the road. It's Russell, then it's Hamilton in a Mercedes 1-2. So we box? Correct. So box, Checo, box. Pérez won't need to make another pit stop, whereas everyone putting on a medium surely will need to come in again. OK, so Bottas, Joe, Ocon and De Vries in front of you, all on hard. Whirly triangle up inside at high speed chicane. Whoa! To the inside! That was a risk, but a risk that paid off for Checo Pérez. This is the move for Sergio Pérez. Pérez has set the fastest lap back-to-back. Sergio Pérez with another pass, but he's highlights reel of a race. P5 at the fastest lap. OK, boys. OK, go back in, back up. Great recovery, Checo. P5, fastest lap. So for the back of the grid, that's decent points from where you started. Well done, mate. Yeah, good job, guys. Let's keep it up. You are also five minutes a day, I think. That doesn't give us any points, no? Sadly not. Sadly not. He's being told to make a pit stop. So this is crucial. The first of the front runners to come into the pits. Look at the tyres that they're going to put on. And they are intermediates. So Checo, Sergio Pérez, the first of that lead group to make a pit stop. And into the pits then comes our race leader, Charles Leclerc. So he's going to come back out. Let's have a look. Pérez made the earlier pit stop, of course. And that is Pérez, isn't it? Going past. That was Pérez taking the lead there, because that's what I was saying. They waited too long to roll the dice. Oh, my God. Guys, guys, guys! This is us! Thank you, guys. Thank you so much to everyone. So happy to be part of this team. Vamos, Checo! Unbelievable! What a drive! What an incredible drive. What a co-incident for him. Incredible. Well done, mate. This is how we do it, man. We shut our mouth and we work hard. This is the Mexican way. Well done, guys. He's been under pressure throughout. He had to overtake Fernando Alonso after losing the lead at the start. But he comes out of the final corner as the first driver to see the flag for the fifth time in Formula 1. Sergio Pérez wins. It's Pérez on top at the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix. Good! Nice job, guys. Well done. Excellent result for the team. Fantastic, Checo. Absolutely fantastic. Really, really amazing drive. That last stint was on fire. Well done, mate. So, last chance then. DRS between turn three and four. Here we go. And then I don't see an opportunity for the rest of the lap. And Lewis is not going to make a mistake from here. And there we go. Is that the lunge? It would have been a bit wild if it had been. And that, I believe, is game over. Hamilton finishes second. And for the first time ever, we'll have a Mexican driver on the podium in his home race. Sergio Pérez comes home to finish third.