Sergio Perez shuts down the streets of Madrid – Automotive Weblog

Components One star Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez lit up the streets of the Spanish capital for a Purple Bull Showrun on the weekend.

On the wheel of each the RB7 and RB8 (two of Sebastian Vettel’s championship profitable automobiles), Checo took town by storm, as the enduring sound of the V8 engine reverberated round a number of of Madrid’s historic landmarks.

In his third showrun for Oracle Purple Bull Racing, the Mexican pulled out the donuts in entrance of the well-known Cibeles Fountain, as greater than 85,000 followers watched on in a celebration of Purple Bull motorsport.

Madrid is the fifth metropolis by which the workforce and Checo have hooked as much as run the streets in a Purple Bull Showrun.

In 2021 he burnt rubber within the streets of Mexico Metropolis and, contemporary from profitable the Constructors’ title final season with the Workforce, Checo stopped visitors in his hometown of Guadalajara. He’s additionally taken to the tarmac of Oracle Purple Bull Racing’s house metropolis, Milton Keynes and Dallas, Texas.

“It was wonderful to see the group right here right now and the way passionate the folks of Madrid are about Oracle Purple Bull Racing and Components One,” mentioned Checo.

“Individuals are tremendous blissful to see us, we’re the one workforce who could make occasions like this attainable, solely Purple Bull can shut down the busiest streets of Spain’s capital metropolis on a Saturday night time!

“This was such a enjoyable night and now I’m wanting ahead to being again behind the wheel of the RB19 to get my season again on monitor, I wish to get again to profitable and rating as many factors as attainable earlier than the summer time break, we’ve some necessary races arising.”