Sergio Perez’s final outing for Red Bull at 2021 pre-season testing was a good one, with the Mexican beating Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to lead the times going into the Sunday lunch break at the Bahrain International Circuit.
In the final hour of running for the first session of the day, Perez bolted on a set of C4 soft tyres, to set the fastest lap of pre-season testing so far in the Red Bull RB16B, a 1m 30.187s – with the Mexican looking more confident than he had done on Saturday in the car, when he’d endured a number of off-track moments. The only downside for Perez on his last day in the car was a relatively low lap count, as he managed just 47 laps around Bahrain.