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Adapted from GMM
Maybe because he has tried many bold overtaking manoeuvres, Sergio Perez has been compared by some to the legend Gilles Villeneuve, but the exciting Canadian's son Jacques - the 1997 world champion - does not agree.
"It's true about the aggression," Villeneuve told Spain's AS newspaper, "but my father was cleaner, and had more respect."
After Monaco, where the McLaren driver clashed with title contender Kimi Raikkonen who admitted his desire to punch Perez, many criticized the 23-year-old, but McLaren predictably backed him.
Villeneuve too thinks it is Raikkonen who should have been punished for the Monaco accident.
"He clearly closed the door because he knew what was going to happen (be overtaken)," said the French-Canadian.
"But of course everyone likes him (Raikkonen), everything is ok," Villeneuve added.
"He says something and everyone in the press room laughs, even if it's bad. I don't understand that."
Meanwhile, Perez's former boss also leapt to the defence of the Mexican, following bitter criticism of his increasingly aggressive racing.
"Everybody knows what kind of driver Sergio is," Monisha Kaltenborn, whose Sauber team brought Perez and his sponsor Telmex into the sport in 2011, is quoted by Brazil's Totalrace.
"You have to accept his aggression and also know that he is not yet so experienced, so there is a necessary time for that.
"Maybe in two years something will have changed, but I don't see a problem with respect to his aggressiveness," she added.
"In the last race, two of his moves were successful and only one went wrong. And it's attitudes like these that make races exciting."
Maybe because he has tried many bold overtaking manoeuvres, Sergio Perez has been compared by some to the legend Gilles Villeneuve, but the exciting Canadian's son Jacques - the 1997 world champion - does not agree.
"It's true about the aggression," Villeneuve told Spain's AS newspaper, "but my father was cleaner, and had more respect."
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| Gilles Villeneuve "had more respect" than Sergio Perez (Photo: WRi2) |
After Monaco, where the McLaren driver clashed with title contender Kimi Raikkonen who admitted his desire to punch Perez, many criticized the 23-year-old, but McLaren predictably backed him.
Villeneuve too thinks it is Raikkonen who should have been punished for the Monaco accident.
"He clearly closed the door because he knew what was going to happen (be overtaken)," said the French-Canadian.
"But of course everyone likes him (Raikkonen), everything is ok," Villeneuve added.
"He says something and everyone in the press room laughs, even if it's bad. I don't understand that."
Meanwhile, Perez's former boss also leapt to the defence of the Mexican, following bitter criticism of his increasingly aggressive racing.
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| Sergio Perez, McLaren MP4-28 (Photo: WRi2) |
"Everybody knows what kind of driver Sergio is," Monisha Kaltenborn, whose Sauber team brought Perez and his sponsor Telmex into the sport in 2011, is quoted by Brazil's Totalrace.
"You have to accept his aggression and also know that he is not yet so experienced, so there is a necessary time for that.
"Maybe in two years something will have changed, but I don't see a problem with respect to his aggressiveness," she added.
"In the last race, two of his moves were successful and only one went wrong. And it's attitudes like these that make races exciting."