Perez was collected by the out-of-control Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas on the Hungaroring’s first nook, and suffered main injury to his automobile.
Though the Mexican was capable of proceed at first, he floor to a halt additional across the lap when the engine stopped.
Purple Bull crew boss Christian Horner revealed after the race that the Perez retirement was the results of accident injury – and the preliminary inspection pointed to the facility unit being completely out of motion.
“It misplaced all its water instantly,” mentioned Horner. “We’ll should look into it in additional element, however the preliminary experiences are it is going to now not be in service.”
If the Perez write-off is confirmed then he must transfer onto his third and closing energy unit of the season on the Belgian Grand Prix.
And on a weekend the place Purple Bull needed to transfer Max Verstappen on to his third engine too following a crack being found on the unit that had been crashed on the British GP, it means Purple Bull faces a double penalty blow later within the marketing campaign.
Requested by Autospoer if there was any hope of seeing out the season while not having a fourth engine for both driver, Horner mentioned: “Little or no, I am afraid.
“And that is massively irritating for Honda as a result of it isn’t attributable to reliability, it is due to accidents that we’ve not brought on. So that they’re feeling the brunt of this in addition to we’re on the chassis aspect.”
Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes W12, collides with Sergio Perez, Purple Bull Racing RB16B, at the beginning
Picture by: Mark Sutton / Motorsport Images
Horner mentioned the flip one incident which wrecked Purple Bull’s hopes was ‘brutal’ for the crew as he steered Bottas had completed Mercedes a favour together with his mistake taking out Verstappen and Perez.
“I do not suppose there was something we might do,” claimed Horner. “That is the brutality of racing, is not it? I believe that, sadly, you noticed Valtteri make a poor begin, he clearly misjudged his braking and he is completed an ideal job for Mercedes in taking out each of our automobiles.
“There was a major quantity of injury. It value one other engine with Sergio and clearly Max was then massively compromised.”