{"id":770450,"date":"2026-06-30T05:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770450\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T05:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:57:13","slug":"sergio-perez-savages-cadillac-after-unacceptable-austrian-gp-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/770450\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez Savages Cadillac After ‘Unacceptable’ Austrian GP Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Formula One<\/a> driver has savaged his team over their nightmare performance at the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday. <\/p>\n

It was another fine weekend for Mercedes, as George Russell picked up his second victory of the season<\/a> to reinvigorate his pursuit of teammate Kimi Antonelli at the top of the Drivers’ Championship<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Brit was chased hard by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who finished second, with championship pacesetter Antonelli back in third. All three crossed the finishing line within seconds of each other at the Red Bull Ring as the race saw a tense conclusion.<\/p>\n

However, while the race for victory went right the way until the end of the Grand Prix, one F1 team endured a dismal time in Austria, with one of their drivers publicly calling them out over the situation when speaking to the media on Sunday evening. <\/p>\n

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The Cadillac pairing of Sergio Perez<\/a> and Valtteri Bottas were both out of the race within four laps, with both cars suffering brake overheating problems. <\/p>\n

It’s not the first team that the grid’s newest team has struggled for reliability in their debut season, either. Bottas was forced out of the Monaco Grand Prix three weeks ago, while Perez endured a suspension failure in Montreal.<\/p>\n

The American constructor is the only team not to have picked up a point so far this season and Perez’s frustrations with his employers boiled over while speaking to Crash.net<\/a> after the race.<\/p>\n


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Perez, who finished as the world championship runner-up just three seasons ago at Red Bull, held nothing back as he discussed the current state of his car.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been having issues all weekend. I think it’s been the worst weekend ever. It feels like we took four or five steps backwards. So there needs to be a massive process, thinking on how we’re doing things, especially when it comes to upgrades, because today what happened was totally unacceptable and very unfortunate as well for the team.”<\/p>\n

Perez admitted that his anger was born out of a lack of general progress by his new side since the start of the season, but he expressed hope that the issues could be rectified before next weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone.<\/p>\n

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“The most frustrating thing is not to see progress. I think we always expected these things to occur to a new team, obviously, but I think the frustration comes from the lack of progress. <\/p>\n

“So I’m sure that this upgrade will help us to understand a lot of those efficiencies, and I do expect a massive step forward in reliability going to Silverstone.”<\/p>\n

Perez reportedly signed a multi-year agreement with Cadillac when he joined the team, but a report surfaced last month claimed that he was already considering tearing up his deal<\/a> over performance concerns. <\/p>\n

Cadillac were always realistic about their chances of success in their debut season being low, but few expected them to be without a point after eight rounds of the season. Team Principal Graeme Lowdon will be hoping that they turn the corner with their form as soon as possible, starting with a far stronger performance at the British Grand Prix this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Formula One driver has savaged his team over their nightmare performance at the Austrian Grand Prix on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-770450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}