Sergio Perez pokes enjoyable at F1 “Mario Kart” references: ‘I would like the mushroom’

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Cadillac Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez poked enjoyable on the current feedback likening the present 2026 laws to Mario Kart.

During the Chinese Grand Prix, wherein he completed in fifteenth, the Mexican driver joked over the crew radio, “I need a mushroom now. It disappeared. I don’t know what happened.”

 

Perez, who joined Cadillac because it joined the championship because the eleventh crew in 2026, had beforehand spoken about how Overtake Mode and using the increase button within the new laws is just like enjoying the retro sport.

“I found it very fake, to be honest,” Perez instructed the media in Shanghai, when requested what he felt concerning the racing on the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. 

“Just on a button. You overtake and then you get overtaken. Yeah, Mario Kart style.”

He added: “At the end of the day, also the driver can do the difference, but it comes down. It’s very early days on these rules, but it takes time. But what we saw in Melbourne, me talking as a fan, I didn’t like it.”

Sergio Perez, Cadillac Racing, Valtteri Bottas, Cadillac Racing

Sergio Perez, Cadillac Racing, Valtteri Bottas, Cadillac Racing

Photo by: James Sutton / Formula 1 / Formula Motorsport Ltd through Getty Images

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc additionally pointed to the online game throughout a crew radio message in Australia. “This is like the mushroom in Mario Kart,” the Monegasque driver mentioned.

Haas’ Oliver Bearman additionally agreed. “Yeah, a little bit,” he instructed the media in Melbourne when requested if it was like enjoying a sport. “It was like I used to be in F1 and everybody else was in F2. But then, after all, you must recharge the battery once more, as a result of in any other case you are lifeless into the subsequent straight.


“So, it’s a lot of stuff to think about, which is complicated, but the fact that I finished P7 means that I’m happy, even if the car has not been the most fun to drive this weekend.”

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