The Abu Dhabi ghosts are not forgotten yet. Another Safety Car has been called at the wrong time, this time in Jeddah and Perez feels to be the one who lost a golden chance to win the race. And it’s again Latifi’s fault.

"This is just racing especially when we knew that we could be in that situation,” Perez told Sky Sports F1, analysing the safety car period.

“We had the undercut and the margin that we were looking for, we got it, and things were looking really good but unfortunately Latifi put it in the wall at the wrong time for me.

“This is racing. It will come around for us one day but it hurts because we did everything we possibly could do win this race from pole – he continued.

At some point, he tried to catch his advantage again over Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz but he has not been as clean as he should have to be. However, the stewards asked him to give the position back to the Ferrari driver and he immediately did. He stated that it was a good call. - I was told to give the place back, so I gave it back. I felt that was fair enough.”

He had to close the race without even getting on the podium, after a wonderful pole position on Saturday’s Qualifying.

“After the virtual safety car I think I picked up a bit of speed, I came close, but then there was the yellow flags on the finals laps so I had to slow down and I couldn’t do much more."

Sometimes luck is not on your side, but there’s plenty of positive things from the weekend.

Congrats to @Max33Verstappen on his first win of the season; great team result!

A veces la suerte no está de tu lado, ¡pero hay muchas cosas positivas que rescatar del fin de semana! pic.twitter.com/YqlWs2jPMC

— Sergio Pérez (@SChecoPerez) March 27, 2022