{"id":17103,"date":"2012-11-17T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17103"},"modified":"2012-11-17T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T15:33:00","slug":"ferrari-were-really-interested-for-2014-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ferrari-were-really-interested-for-2014-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrari were ‘really interested’ for 2014 – Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergio Perez has admitted there was a chance he would have landed at Ferrari in 2014.<\/p>\n

\"Sergio-Perez-car\"Instead, the Mexican – who was the cream of Ferrari’s driver development academy – has been poached by the fabled Italian squad’s historic rival McLaren.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to be at Ferrari in 2014,” Perez, who will move to the British team from Sauber at the end of the year, told El Mundo newspaper.<\/p>\n

He said the signs he had a future at Ferrari were good, particularly after a meeting at Monza with Stefano Domenicali.<\/p>\n

“They were really interested in me, but now not,” the 22-year-old smiled.<\/p>\n

Recalling the day he signed with McLaren, Perez admitted: “I jumped on my bed and drank tequila with my friends.”<\/p>\n

His new boss Martin Whitmarsh, however, warned the new McLaren driver not to be too excited.<\/p>\n

“He will turn up in Australia next year with so much more pressure on his shoulders,” he said.\u00a0 “There is an added pressure to being a McLaren driver.<\/p>\n

“He might think he understands it, but he doesn’t.”<\/p>\n

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Sergio Perez has admitted there was a chance he would have landed at Ferrari in 2014. Instead, the Mexican – who was the cream of Ferrari’s driver development academy – has been poached by the fabled Italian squad’s historic rival McLaren. “I wanted to be at Ferrari in 2014,” Perez, who will move to the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,93,5340,491,5284,114,1952,150],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17104,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103\/revisions\/17104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}