Pérez – Ricciardo – Red Bull: Cross-hunted?

And suddenly, Charles Leclerc became public enemy number one. It must be said that from the outside, for stands more passionate about Sergio Pérez than about motor racing, the image of the Ferrari No. 16 sending that of the national icon flying at the first corner was enough to send the Monegasque a wave of particularly unfair whistles at the moment of the podium. Because the fault lay more with Checo, even if the race management rightly decided that it was a racing incident.

Author of a superb flight, which Pérez humbly described as “best start of the year”, the Mexican saw himself growing wings in his Red Bull to the point of presenting himself on the outside three abreast with Leclerc and Max Verstappen, at the first braking. The problem ? This is because he then took the corner as if he were all alone, pressing the Ferrari driver against his teammate, and precipitating his own fall. For a moment, the car Italian girl looked like