🇲🇽 Sergio Pérez

Sergio Pérez is an elite professional racing driver competing in Formula 1 for Cadillac, where he has been a regular since 2011. He holds an FIA Platinum grade, the highest classification in professional sportscar and endurance racing. His primary racing has been in single-seat championships across two decades, beginning with GP2 and extending through 298 Formula 1 starts to date.[1]

Pérez has won six Grands Prix across his Formula 1 career and took 39 podiums there, alongside five wins and nine podiums in GP2 between 2009 and 2010. He was runner-up in the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship in 2023 with Red Bull. His record in Formula 1 places him among the most experienced drivers on the current grid, with over 300 starts in the championship. He spent a significant portion of his career with Force India, for which he recorded 100 starts.[2]

In the fields he competes in regularly, Pérez typically finishes behind generational talents such as Lewis Hamilton, an eight-time Formula 1 champion, but runs closely matched against established professionals like Valtteri Bottas. He has finished ahead of George Russell and Lando Norris, both generational drivers and multiple-time champions in their own right, on numerous occasions across their shared Formula 1 seasons. His current season in 2026 continues at the elite level, where recent coverage has examined his relative performance against his teammates and his assessment of the current generation of machinery.