his situation is being monitored by rival F1 teams.<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nWhen asked how beneficial his year out was, Perez told media including RacingNews365: \u201cI think it was really good for me.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way it worked out, having a year off is not easy to come back to the sport.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Perez began his preparations for a return in November last year, when he jumped behind the wheel of an older Ferrari challenger.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Having not driven a race car in almost 12 months prior to the test, Perez admitted surprise over how quickly he was able to get into a rhythm.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI was actually surprised when I did the test in the middle of last year with Ferrari, with the 2023 car, how quickly I got up to speed,\u201d\u00a0he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want to drive anything else, any other series, until I knew what I was going to do in my future, and I didn\u2019t drive anything other than [F1], and when I jumped in the Ferrari, within a couple of laps, a couple of runs, I was already up to speed, up to the pace.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that gave me a lot of confidence and I knew that starting this year everyone was going to start from zero with these new regulations, so I think pretty much straightforward.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce I\u2019ve done it for so long, it didn\u2019t take me too long to get up to speed.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez has stated he is \u201csurprised\u201d how quickly he got back up to speed in F1 after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-774811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774811","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=774811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}