Sergioꦬ Perez has defended his Racing Point team following conꦆfirmation rivals Renault F1 have lodged a protest against its car over its evident similarities to the 2019 title-winning Mercedes W10 car.

Dubbed the ‘pink Mercedes’, the Racing Point RP20 garnered a lot of attention over the wi🀅nter for its striking similarity to the 2019-spec Mercedes W10 f🍸rom its lithe shape, down to its unusually shaped nose cone.

With its Mercedes-sourced power unit and gearbox, the similar aerodynamics – which Racing Point insist have been based on its visual interpretation of the W10 – have r💟aised con♐cerns it now errs too closely to a direct customer car, which isn’t permitted in the regulations.

As such, Renault is taking its complaint🌳 to the govern🌼ing body, though have previously said it predominately seeks clarity moving forward.

However, when asked by wuqian0821.com for a reaction to the protest, Perez says it doesn’t desℱerve to discredit the work done by the Racing Point cre💃w to survive financial difficulties to emerge with a truly competitive car.

Whether it looks similar or not to the Mercedes, we cannot hide away that it looks similar to the🌠 Mercedes car but the most important thing for me is that we don’t take any praise off the boys 🐽back home, we have done extremely well with minimal resources.

“Things over the years have been extremely challenging for our ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ෴ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚteam, with all the difficulties with the financial issues and so on.

“We always knew t🌌here was a potential in placd but we were not able to exploit is. So I want to give praise to all the factory, all the people working back home and trackside, they have done a tremendous job and I believe our car is 100% legal.”