Sergio Perez was disappointed with 10th place at the Mexican Grand Prix after a “frustrating” home race for the Force India driver.
He started in 12th place and made a good start, moving up to ninth place on the opening lap behind the Williams of Valtteri Bottas.
After the pit stops, the Mexican found himself behind the second Williams of Felipe Massa and struggled to find a way through.
He eventually just missed out on ninth place and picked up one point for 10th, in front of his enthusiastic home fans.
“Even though I scored a point, it was a very frustrating race being stuck behind the Williams cars and unable to overtake,” he said.
“I tried everything I could, but it’s not easy because they had a straight-line speed advantage. There were a few occasions when I was very close to making the move stick on Felipe [Massa], but in the end it just wasn’t possible.
“I think maybe we could have tried something different with the strategy because we underestimated the effect of the medium tyre, which turned out to have much more life than we expected.
“So perhaps we could have pitted earlier and run longer on the medium. That’s something we need to analyse and understand if it would have made a difference to our result.
“Even with the tenth place the fans were cheering for me. They are so loyal; always behind me and they have given me so much positive energy all week.
“Although I wanted to give them a better result, this has still been the most enjoyable race of the year.”
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