Thread: Joe Ramirez: Perez has everything to win the championship

Joe Ramirez: Perez has everything to win the championship

Former Manager McLaren Joe Ramirez was a mentor Sergio Perez in the Junior support program Scuderia Telmex, and helped CECO, when he only moved to Europe. Several years ago, that Ramirez introduced his young compatriot leadership McLaren, and this week Perez for the first time brought the car team from Woking on the track.
Ramirez came to watch the first tests Sergio comprising McLaren, and after Friday's races have shared impressions

Joe Ramirez: so far everything is going fine. For Sergio's contract with McLaren is a chance. This opportunity presented itself, and it is now important to squeeze out of the situation. Firstly because another chance may not come again and, secondly, because now the whole Mexico supports Checking. We have been waiting for this for many years and now we finally have the pilot in the top team. I'm sure he understands how important it is to take your chance and I believe that he will succeed.

I know him since then, as at 14, he moved to Europe to compete with the best of the best. Much easier to go to the USA, but it makes no sense to race in the States, if you want to get into Formula 1. Chico went to Europe to teach the course to compete with the top European racers. This is another level.

We have seen that he is ready to sacrifice a lot to achieve a goal. He had to adapt to a new climate, to another language, the food. In the end, had to leave her family and friends. It's hard. Especially for Hispanics. But Sergio wanted to succeed, and we knew from the beginning that he will go far.



Now Peres is still learning, but with every race when he pitted against world champions leading Formula 1 pilots, he adds all the stronger. Last year there were several races, and I think now it is much more holistic pilot than personality. He's still very young. You can see that he is not fully matured. But his racing experience is huge. I have worked with many champions and can say: Yes, he has all the qualities that I've seen from top racers. He is from the same breed. It has everything to win the Championship. So skrestim fingers. Time will tell, I have rights or not.