Sergio Perez has admitted his Monaco crash was a hefty setback in his debut formula one season.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Mexican, who will stay with the Sauber team in 2012, crashed heavily during qualifying for the prestigious race in May.<\/p>\n
He sat out Sunday’s race and then tried to return in Canada two weeks later, ultimately giving up his seat to Pedro de la Rosa after not feeling well during practice.<\/p>\n
Races in Valencia, Silverstone, Germany and Hungary then apparently signalled a full return to health.<\/p>\n
But just before the recent Belgian grand prix, Perez was quoted as saying the August break “was good for me to fully recover” from his crash three months earlier.<\/p>\n
“The accident threw me back quite a lot,” he revealed to Germany’s spox.com this week.<\/p>\n
“I lost my momentum and so it took me a long time to get back my normal level of performance.”<\/p>\n
Perez has just 8 points so far compared with teammate Kamui Kobayashi’s 27, and he thinks that if Monaco had proceeded normally “I definitely would have more (points) compared to him” by now.<\/p>\n
But Perez, backed not only by the billionaire Carlos Slim’s companies but also Ferrari, insists he never feared for his career.<\/p>\n
“No, I was not worried, except that for a couple of races I had to recover.<\/p>\n
“Sauber is a really good team for a rookie.\u00a0 The support I have is great.”<\/p>\n
Sauber has already signed Perez for 2012, but at the end of the season the young driver will test a works Ferrari.<\/p>\n
His likely career trajectory has therefore been compared with Felipe Massa’s, who drove at Ferrari-powered Sauber before moving to Maranello.<\/p>\n
“Well, first of all I have to prove that I can do my job well.<\/p>\n
“Of course I want to have a lot of success in formula one and be world champion, but how and when I will move in that direction, at the moment I have no idea,” said Perez.<\/p>\n
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