Sergio Perez Hasn’t Yet Turned Around His F1 Career After 2014 Force India Move

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Published: September 28, 2014

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If at the beginning of the year you had highlighted any number of Formula One drivers with a point to prove in the 2014 season, Sergio Perez would almost certainly have featured in your reckoning.

It would not have been an exaggeration to suggest that the Mexican, having suffered the humiliation of being eaten alive and ejected by McLaren after just a solitary campaign with the Woking-based team in 2013, was facing a fight to rescue his career.

He was, in fact, extremely fortunate to find an instant reprieve at Force India as his departure from McLaren was announced in mid-November, a time when the driver market has traditionally quietened down—leaving only scraps for the desperate—with Martin Whitmarsh, McLaren's then-team principal, informing BBC Sport's Andrew Benson of his efforts to find alternative employment for Perez.



Remaining in F1 was one thing—but proving that he deserved his spot in the sport was quite another.

And alongside Nico Hulkenberg, widely considered to possess the talent of a future world champion, the Mexican could very quickly have, at the age of just 24, faded away.



The biggest compliment you could pay to Perez after 14 races of the campaign, however, is that the fanfare surrounding Hulkenberg is not quite as loud as it was a year ago.

What was feared, on paper at least, to be a one-man show has, in reality, become the ideal partnership for a midfield outfit such as Force India: Hulkenberg, a points scorer in 11 of the opening 12 races, plods along and consistently adds to the team's tally, while Perez pops up in the pound seats, the eye-catching positions.

And although Perez trails his stablemate by a rather large margin, 27 points, in the drivers' championship—his failure to even start the Malaysian Grand Prix due to a gearbox problem didn't help matters—his position in the standings doesn't tell half...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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