After getting past Stroll at T10, Perez had clearly tasted some sweetness and was all set to pull the same move at T10 on the next lap to overtake Hockenheim…
And then he crashed…
Perez's front wing endplate was heavily damaged; the entire left side of the front wing was missing a huge chunk, and his speed was obviously affected.
Although, same as Sainz, it was front wing damage, Perez's loss of pace was clearly bigger. And since Perez was out of the points at this stage and very unlikely to score, Red Bull simply called him back in.
Because of this move, Perez completely lost any chance of fighting for points in today's race.
Honestly, if today's race were held on a track where overtaking is even slightly easier, even somewhere like Hengelo, Perez, in the fastest car in the paddock, wouldn't be this frustrated. But there's nothing he can do — this is Monte Carlo, the jewel in F1's crown.
The race then slipped into a lull.
