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Perez: Safety Car compromised one-stop strategy

 XPB Images Sergio Perez says the late Safety Car at the Mexican Grand Prix “did not help my one-stop strategy”, and turned his home event into “one of the most difficult” races of his career. Having started from ninth on the soft compound, the Force India driver pitted for mediums on Lap 19 and set about making his second set of tyres last until the end of the 71-lap contest. After overtaking the two Toro Rossos of Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen, Perez was steadily running in eighth when Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel crashed and brought the Safety Car out with less than 20 laps remaining. “We chose not to pit when it came out because we thought there was a chance to...
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