Pérez was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy until 2012. Having previously driven for Sauber, McLaren, Force India, and Racing Point.
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Sergio Michel Pérez Mendoza is a Mexican racing driver who races in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. Perez popularly known as Checo was born on 26 January 1990 in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Pérez is the youngest child of Antonio Pérez Garibay and Marilú Mendoza de Pérez; he also has an older sister Paola and an older brother Antonio, a retired stock car racing driver who competed in the NASCAR Mexico Series. Pérez is married to Carola Martínez, and they have two children. Pérez is a Roman Catholic. Both Pérez brothers are association football fans, stating that they thought about leaving car racing to play professionally.
Pérez was a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy until 2012. Having previously driven for Sauber, McLaren, Force India, and Racing Point. Due to his young age and performance, he was referred to as “The Mexican Wunderkind”. Pérez joined McLaren for the 2013 season, but the team did not score a single podium finish. Subsequently, the team decided to replace Pérez with Kevin Magnussen for the 2014 season. Force India signed Pérez for the 2014 season with a million contract. He remained with Force India when the team went into administration in 2018 and reformed as the Racing Point team for 2019.
Pérez began his career at the age of 6 years in karting in 1996. In his first year of competition he achieved four victories in the junior category at the end of the year and claimed the runner-up spot in the category. In 1997, he participated in the karting Youth Class, where he was the youngest driver in the category and earned a win, five podiums and finished fourth in the championship. Pérez moved to Europe in 2005 to compete in the German Formula BMW ADAC series. He was allowed to live in a restaurant owned by his team manager for four months. He finished fourteenth in the championship, driving for 4speed Media.
Pérez switched to the British Formula 3 Championship for 2007. Pérez relocated his residence to Oxford. He competed in the National Class for older chassis with the T-Sport team, winning the championship by a comfortable margin. In the process, he won two-thirds of the races and a similar proportion of pole positions, and finished all but two races on the podium. For 2008, he and T-Sport graduated to the premier International Class of the championship. After leading the championship early in the season, he eventually finished fourth in the drivers’ standings.
Perez made his Formula One debut driving for Sauber during the 2011 season. Sauber subsequently announced a partnership with Pérez’s sponsor Telmex. He became the fifth Mexican to compete in Formula One, and the first since Héctor Rebaque competed between 1977 and 1981. Pérez finished seventh in his first race, the Australian Grand Prix, impressing observers by stopping to change tyres only once, becoming the only driver in the field to make fewer than two stops. However, both Sauber cars were subsequently disqualified for infringing technical regulations. He finished sixteenth in the Drivers’ Championship with fourteen points.
He won his first Formula One Grand Prix at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, breaking the record for the number of starts before a race win at 190. He also earned his first Formula One pole position at the 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, breaking the record for the most races before a first pole position at 215.
| Races | 218 |
| Wins | 2 |
| Poles | 1 |
| Podiums | 17 |
| Points | 950 |
Sergio Perez’s number is derived from the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan star Ivan Zamorano who had the number 11 on the back of his jersey. Perez admired this football player and also wanted to use this number when he was still karting.
According to the sources the Mexican is worth $30 Million US Dollars, with an annual salary of $8 million in 2020. In the year 2021. Perez is the fourth most paid driver on the grid, behind Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, and Fernando Alonso, according to reports. Perez’s annual pay at Red Bull is expected to be over $18 million, including $13 million in bonuses.
Sergio Perez married Carola Martinez, a Guadalajara socialite of 24 years. On June 3, 2018, the couple tied the knot in a ceremony in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The pair were overjoyed to get Pope Francis’ blessing for their marriage, as they both came from Christian families.
Yes. Sergio Perez Jr. and Carlota Perez are Perez and Martinez’s two young children.
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