Most people would settle for staying in the beautiful Mexican beach resort of Punta Mita, where Sergio Perez is currently spending the coronavirus lockdown, but the Racing Point driver is itching to drive his 2020 RP20 challenger – which he says is one of the fastest Formula 1 cars ever.

Racing Point certainly made a statement at pre-season testing with their Mercedes-like RP20 and Perez has already said how formidable a machine it was proving to be. On Formula 1’s latest Instagram live, he didn’t hold back in his praise of the 2020 cars, which he reckons will smash all lap records when racing resumes.

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“We are driving the fastest cars in the history of Formula 1,” he said. “You cannot imagine the speeds that we do in fast corners.

“It's nothing close to previous years. The qualifying laps are going to be amazing. We are going to be breaking all lap records this year with the generation of cars we have, they're simply the best cars,” he said.