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Mallya hails Perez's 'gutsy drive'
Vijay Mallya says he thoroughly enjoyed watching Sergio Perez's "outstanding" race against Jenson Button at the Italian GP.
The former team-mates raced wheel-to-wheel in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix with Perez winning the battle to take seventh place and move up to 39 points in the Championship.
"Outstanding," Mallya told Autosport when asked for his thoughts on the Mexican's drive.
"To have a World Champion chase you from behind like that and stave him off, and not for one or two laps, for 15-16 laps. That's called a gutsy drive.
"I was enjoying every minute - apart from sitting on my pitwall doing what I had to do - I was loving it!"
And although there...
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