Overview
- Perez disclosed the account on the High Performance podcast published Wednesday, July 15, 2026, saying he and his manager led the administration process for Force India in 2018.
- He says the team had not paid his salary for about a year and that an unpaid supplier had threatened a winding‑up petition that could have forced immediate liquidation.
- Perez and manager Julian Jakobi, he says, initiated administration before the petition arrived so the High Court’s 90‑day moratorium could be used to find a buyer.
- Lawrence Stroll bought the team’s assets during that rescue window, the outfit became Racing Point and later rebranded as Aston Martin, a sequence Perez’s account aligns with.
- Perez describes juggling legal meetings at race weekends and reassuring staff, and his disclosure is a retrospective, first‑hand clarification rather than a new legal or ownership development.