Carlos Sainz was the man to miss out at Ferrari when Hamilton’s move was confirmed and after months of negotiations, finally picked Williams as his next team.
Verstappen topped the unique Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez podium for the first time in 2017, when Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes were still dominant, and followed that up with another triumph in 2018.
And speaking with the Spanish edition of Fox Sports, Perez’s father Antonio Perez expressed his praise to Colapinto as it is ‘almost impossible’ for a Latino to reach the pinnacle of motorsport.