🗣 'It was just a matter of making sure both cars finished to get maximum points' SaudiArabianGP winner SChecoPerez has explained his late-race 'pushing for nothing' radio call. Story:
, Verstappen began to report vibrations around the driveshaft with concerning noises at high speed, fearing a repeat of his qualifying failure.
Verstappen was continuing to try and cut the gap to Perez, having consistently chipped about a tenth of a second out of his team-mate's advantage per lap. Asked by Autosport if he was angling for the team to intervene with team orders, Perez responded in the opposite and stated his happiness to race with Verstappen - and was actually more concerned with the reliability scares.
"I just felt like there was a point where, for the last 10 laps or so, that we had very similar pace within a 10, faster or slower.
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