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Perez: That was my mistake
Sergio Perez is confident his crash in FP2 in Japan will not have a negative impact on his weekend.
Lapping the track in Friday's second session, the McLaren driver touched the artificial grass at Spoon and that was all that was needed to send him off the track and into the barriers at speed.
"My accident during FP2 was my error," he said.
"I was setting the car up for the entry to Spoon, put my right-rear wheel onto the grass, and just lost the back end.
"At the speed I was travelling, and with relatively little run-off, there wasn't much room to scrub off speed so I went straight into the wall.
"The impact was quite hard, but fortunately I'm fine."
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