“What happened is already a thing of the past,” he remarked. “We kept going and took those first 10 laps as hope. “We understood what happened in qualifying, we saw problems, we tried to fix it for Sunday and I think we went in the right direction, so that’s definitely promising.”
Perez admitted, however, that he and the team may have their work cut out for them in terms of battling McLaren and Ferrari.
“We understood many of the problems we had in Mexico, for my part, when you look at my first 10 laps in Mexico, they looked good and competitive,” he reiterated. “But we definitely have to find [something] – When you look at the pace of McLaren and Ferrari, they seem to be on another level in the last two races.
“I really hope we can be in the mix here. We understood some of the problems, but it is not very clear how we are going to solve them. It’s a different track, the altitude probably had a bigger impact on us. [in Mexico]so we’ll see. “I think tomorrow we will have a pretty clear idea of where we are.”