Sergio Perez says Force India made “all the right decisions” during the Japanese Grand Prix, helping him to finish seventh.
He had a strong start and ran as high as third place early on, before dropping down the order as quicker cars moved up the pack.
Perez was involved in some intense battles on the track, using a two-stop strategy to score a good haul of points.
“I enjoyed myself today and I feel we made all the right decisions during the race,” he said. “The start was good fun – I had a clean run going into turn one and ended up in third place.
“I tried my best to hold on to the position, but I knew it would be difficult to keep some very quick cars behind me so I needed to be sensible and choose my battles.
“Our car was very quick today and the two-stop strategy was definitely the correct one for us. It meant we needed to overtake the Williams cars on the track because they were on a different strategy, but fortunately I could make the moves on them very quickly.
“The end of the race, after all the pit stops, was just a case of looking after the tyres and keeping out of trouble. We scored some very useful points today – we need to keep doing the same in the final four races.”
