Perez defends Stroll and billionaire father
Sergio Pérez has defended teammate Lance Stroll and the Canadian driver's billionaire father.
Last year, fashion mogul Lawrence Stroll bought the ailing Force India team, renamed it Racing Point for 2019 and installed his own son Lance as a race driver.
Stroll, 20, was this week criticised by fellow Canadian Alex Tagliani, also a racing driver, who said he is only in Formula 1 because of his father's wealth.
Mexican Perez, Stroll's teammate, defended the father and son.
"He (Lawrence) wants his son to be very successful, and that's also good for me because he is providing all the resources he needs," Perez is quoted by DPA news agency.
"Lance is a normal guy, a normal driver, and he works very hard."
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Alex Tagliani is a typical French Canadian Idiot who races in some amateur hour stock car series sponsored by a frozen chicken wing company. .He has never had any success in the big leagues and is always in bad equipment and he has no sponsor support because he rarely finishes above 17 th. To quote him in a discussion about F1 is like having Ginger Spice . comment on Nuclear Physics .