Mexican driver Sergio Pérez has voiced strong dissatisfaction with the current Formula 1 regulations, stating in an interview with EFE that the sport has become overly complicated.
The 36-year-old Cadillac driver, who has struggled since returning to the pinnacle of motorsport, said: “This Formula 1 is completely different, and the truth is nobody understands it—not the engineers, not the drivers. The cars are not as fun as they used to be.”
He added: “It’s a new, very complicated F1, very different from what we were doing. All teams have a lot to learn. As a driver, you always want to go as fast as possible, but now the electric and recharge elements play a bigger role, making it very different. That’s why we’ve had so much trouble.”
Pérez also highlighted difficulties when following other cars: “There comes a point where you’re going 80 or 90 km/h faster than the car ahead and you don’t know why. It’s hard, you lack information about what’s happening. We all have to adapt to this change of rules.”