Despite dropping down the order in the late chaos, Sergio Perez is pleased with his “promising” performance at the Russian Grand Prix.

At one point in the race at Sochi, Perez looked to be in contention for victory after doing a long first stint on the hard compound tyre.

Rather than rejoin in P3 on fresh mediums though, he ended up coming out of the pits in P5, but the Mexican managed to quickly pass Daniel Ricciardo. At that point, P3 still looked achievable. And then came the rain.

Like Lando Norris, Checo decided to risk staying out on slicks rather than pit early and it proved costly, with the track getting too wet and the Red Bull man ultimately dropping down to the bottom of the points-scoring positions after eventually coming in.