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2023 Formula One World Championship
2023 Belgian Grand Prix
Round 12
Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Stavelot, Belgium
Sunday, 30 July 2023
Sergio Perez will be eager to win the
Belgian Grand Prix for the first time in his career having established himself as one of the top Formula One drivers.
Most recent race
The Mexican racing driver secured a podium spot at the Hungarian Grand Prix on July 23 as he finished third having started ninth on the grid.
Therefore, Perez picked up 15 important points which boosted his ambitions of winning the Formula One world championship for the first time.
Formula One title ambitions
The former Racing Point driver remains second on the World Drivers' Championship standings having accumulated 171 points from 11 races.
Perez is now 110 points behind leader Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT as the battle for the championship continues.
Why Perez could win the 2023 Belgian MotoGP
Perez knows he cannot afford to drop points as he looks to put pressure on Verstappen and he can only do that by winning this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix.
The Guadalajara-born star finished second in last year's Belgian Grand Prix and he will be determined to go one step further by winning the race.
What did he say?
“We got close to P2. Unfortunately, we got through a lot of backmarkers. The track was unbelievably dirty off-line," Perez said after the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix.
"So in the last laps I had some pickup going through the backmarkers and then that meant that I lost a few seconds. Then I recovered towards the end but it was just too late. Anyway, I think overall it was a great strategy by the team and we managed to have an excellent result.
“From now on I look forwards to basically being on the podium every single weekend, so let's keep it up. Yeah it was [close with Piastri] because we were on very similar age tyres," he continued.
"Basically we pitted at the same lap, so we were on fresh tyres [and] I went for it around the outside. We touched into turn one and then into turn two we touched again. It was a little bit close, but hard racing.”
2022 Belgian Grand Prix results
Winner: Max Verstappen - Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Runner-Up: Sergio Perez - Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Third-Place: Carlos Sainz Jr - Ferrari
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