SINGAPORE — Sergio Pérez and Carlos Sainz cleared the air after their crash ultimately week’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in an “awkward” 20-minute dialog whereas sat subsequent to one another on the circuit’s medical centre.

The pair tangled whereas preventing for third place on the penultimate lap, with the entrance proper tyre of Pérez’s automotive making contact with Sainz’s proper rear and sending the Ferrari automotive throughout the trail of the Crimson Bull and into the wall.

Each drivers blamed the opposite afterwards, however the stewards deemed it a racing incident.

After any crash, drivers go to the medical centre for precautionary checks, and Sainz mentioned this offered the chance to speak it over and for each to mirror on how merciless the game may be.

“We have been awkwardly sat subsequent to one another for 20 minutes within the medical centre, each with a coronary heart price monitor and controlling our vitals,” Sainz mentioned forward of this week’s Singapore Grand Prix.

“We have been one another and saying: ‘Mate, what the f— occurred there? And we have been like: I do not know. However I promise I did not do something dangerous to you, Checo. I did not shut you off. I did not do something.’

“We have been having this dialogue and attempting to analyse what occurred. And all of a sudden, after these 20 minutes, we have been like … this sport is so s— typically! How can we be right here and lacking out on the rostrum? We had the rostrum.

“Charles was dying on his onerous tyres on the market. We have been most likely each going to have a go at him. And we have been each sitting there like: ‘How on earth did we handle to not end within the podium?’

“It was a podium coming — and ultimately we form of joked about it, so no onerous emotions with one another.”

Pérez added: “As soon as we took our helmets off, we realised that we screwed up, that ending a race like that was actually disappointing. We have been within the medical centre, they usually have been each checking us up and we have been all wonderful. We each wished to depart as quickly as doable as a result of we have been each tremendous unhappy on the final result.”

After the crash, movies circulated on social media of the rapid aftermath of the crash.

Pérez was the primary to climb out of his automotive, and he walked over to Sainz’s automotive to remonstrate with him — footage confirmed him showing to slap or hit the highest of Sainz’s head as he did so.

Each mentioned the incident was utterly blown out of proportion.

“I used to be speaking to him; I did not push his head,” Pérez mentioned. “It seems to be worse on the video than it’s; clearly Carlos is one among my greatest mates within the drivers group. So the final particular person I might have like to come back along with is with Carlos. However we have turned a web page, and hopefully each of us can have an amazing race [in Singapore].

Sainz dismissed the second too.

“I do not keep in mind it actually. Actually talking, I could not keep in mind if he touched my helmet anyway,” Sainz mentioned.

“I all the time take a little bit of time to get out of my automotive as a result of I must do my belts, the pinnacle relaxation, whereas some drivers desire to not, the drink tube, radio. I all the time take my time, and I feel he used that point to agitatedly come to me to say one thing — by the way in which, I couldn’t hear what he mentioned!”