Before the Las Vegas Grand Prix, Red Bull driver Sergio Perez was involved in a humiliating incident on the grid.

It took Perez several seconds to realize that being interviewed was not part of the plan after being greeted by famed announcer Bruce

Buffer.

While the ecstatic Vegas crowd had cheered the Mexican, 66-year-old Buffer quickly put the Mexican in an awkward position.

When the announcer finished presenting each of the participating drivers, Perez approached Buffer.

But instead of going to his car, Perez is seen standing next to Buffer, as if he’s waiting for an interview to happen.

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Japanese Grand Prix: An explanation of Sergio Perez’s Suzuka “shocker” and the reason for his brief race retirement

Sergio Perez individually had an afternoon he called a “disaster” on an otherwise joyous Sunday for Red Bull at Suzuka as Max

Verstappen cruised to his fourth commanding victory and the team locked up this year’s Constructors’ Championship with a record six

races remaining.

Team manager Christian Horner told Sky Sports F1 that his driver had “a shocker of a race” after he was involved in two incidents and

received two five-second penalties in the course of a dozen laps at the beginning of the competition.

However, it turned out to be one of the most peculiar days of Perez’s extensive career.

After’retiring’ due to car damage at the end of his thirteenth lap, Perez had fallen to the bottom of the field by that point. However, he

returned to the circuit almost an hour later, just as the race was ending for the other competitors.

After finishing three more laps, he once more retired. What then was happening? Let us clarify everything.

As the field headed towards Turn One, Perez was already starting out of position compared to his pole-sitting teammate in fifth place.

This was due to Carlos Sainz starting faster and exploiting a gap between the Red Bull and Charles Leclerc’s other Ferrari. Meanwhile,

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was starting from his outside.

“I had a very bad start, there was no traction at all, and I was just a passenger going into Turn One with Sainz and Hamilton on both

sides,” Perez stated.

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