F1 Singapore GP: Weekend Awards

Egg on Face Trophy

Perez's incident with Ocon was the beginning of an awful day for the Mexican

The Egg on Face Trophy goes to the driver or team who left the race feeling rather embarrassed at the events that day. Ferrari could've taken this one home for poor strategy choices for Vettel, but it's Sergio Perez who is awarded this dishonourable award. Perez broke the golden rule of racing, "Don't take your teammate out" on just the first lap.

The Mexican driver was probably watching Romain Grosjean's Haas to his left-hand side but completely missed that Esteban Ocon in the sister Force India had pulled up alongside him. Perez ran Ocon out of the road and the Frenchman was out of the race with damage before it had hardly begun, but this wasn't the end of Perez's misdemeanours.

Credit to Perez, he had a great first stint after that, pulling out a big gap to eighth place and running not far behind Daniel Ricciardo in a firm best of the rest position. After the stops, he maintained his gap to Nico Hulkenberg but was soon bottled up behind Sergey Sirotkin's Williams. The Russian driver had stopped during the Safety Car period which Perez caused and potentially could've run till the end on his soft compound tyres.

Sirotkin was driving very impressively and wasn't making any mistakes, much to the frustration of Sergio. Later in the race, Perez went for a move and seemed to have the job done but Sergey was keeping his nose in. The battle went on for several corners but on the run down to the underpass (Turns 18 and 19) the red mist descended on the pink panther.

Perez swiped left, despite Sirotkin being clearly alongside, damaging both of their cars, the former a puncture and the latter aerodynamic damage which plagued his pace until the finish.

Perez would later receive a drive-through penalty for his antics, the minimum he deserved for such poor driving. He ended up finishing sixteenth instead of the potential seventh place he was running around in, in the early stages.