Red Bull’s Sergio Perez suffered an unlucky incident throughout apply on the Chinese Grand Prix, ensuing within the driver needing to pit.
The Mexican, who has come underneath strain for his seat with the world champions as a result of his contract expiring on the finish of 2024, was concerned in yet one more second of drama throughout a chaotic Friday on the Shanghai International Circuit.
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Formula 1 has headed to China for the primary time since 2019 this weekend, inflicting various levels of uncertainty among the many groups.
A disrupted Friday apply as a result of a hearth breaking out on the facet of the observe was the very last thing that was wanted, notably with the dash weekend format that means that it was the one and solely apply session of the weekend.
During that very same session, Perez was concerned in an uncommon altercation, hampering his progress all through a lap.
Perez concerned in weird incident
The six-time Grand Prix winner by accident hit a chicken on the observe whereas heading down the very lengthy again straight.
Despite the unhappy circumstances that can have triggered critical hurt to the chicken, Perez managed to lighten the temper with the joke about his engineer – Hugh Bird.
In a hilarious video circulating on social media, it seems that Perez jokingly claimed over the radio that the chicken he had hit was his engineer’s brother, presumably due to his surname.
The Mexican then headed into the pits to gratefully discover out that there was no lasting injury to his RB20.
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