[Official] Brazilian Grand Prix 2022: Grand Prix Weekend Thread - Round 21 of 22

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Originally Posted by crmalcolm

Do you have a source that confirms what you allege Checo did?

Sergio Perez has denied claims he crashed deliberately during Formula 1 qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix

Asked on Thursday in Abu Dhabi if he had crashed purposely in Monaco, Perez denied it. - "“You can review the whole lap and you can already see that I nearly crashed already in Turn 1. I’m just giving it everything, it is the last run of Q3. People just make make mistakes, you know. And that’s really it when you’re chasing the laptime."

When asked about rumours that Red Bull had carried out an internal investigation into the Monaco crash and Perez had then admitted to doing it deliberately, Perez replied: “the rumour is wrong”.

Unfortunately it’s childish to imagine that 90%+ of stuff has any sort of official source. Some scuttlebutt does turn out be wrong but much more turns out to be largely correct.