Pressure slowly building on Perez at Red Bull team
May 17 - The pressure is slowly building on Sergio Perez's shoulders at Red Bull.
The highly experienced Mexican was drafted in to be Max Verstappen's teammate for 2021, after first Pierre Gasly and then Alex Albon struggled to get close to the Dutchman's pace.
But now four races into the season, it is clear that Perez is also not yet getting close enough in the races to play a supporting role for Verstappen.
"At the end of the day, I'm always alone in a fight," Verstappen admitted last week.
"They (Mercedes) can easily make a pitstop because there's a gap, so that doesn't help," he added.
Outspoken 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve agrees that Red Bull is still lacking a more competitive second driver.
"Verstappen is always used to attacking at the limit," he is quoted by Speed Week. "What he needs now is good pace from his teammate so he can support Max in the fight against Mercedes."
Even Bull's Dr Helmut Marko thinks Perez's absence from the top fight in Barcelona may even have cost Verstappen the race win.
When asked if the Dutchman could have won in Spain, Marko told motorsport-magazin.com: "Yes. The solution would have been to have Perez in the immediate vicinity of the first two.
"Then Hamilton would have had to get past Perez and that would certainly not have been easy for him," he added.
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Blah, blah, blah. RB lost 1st place, not Max or Perez. Look in the mirror Marko...
Yes, a teammate can help you win though. See how Bottas' mistake allowed Ham to unlap himself and go on to win? That was bollocks.
Yes the teammate planned this well in advance swede, Elvis was on the grassy knoll don't you know.
Yes, but it DID give Ham the win. Maybe Toto did plan it tho. Like Russel's botched pit stop in Ham's metc in Bahrain last fall... Hummmmmmmm ;)
I do love a conspiracy theory!!! LOL
Swede, that was not a Bottas 'mistake'. You try to pass on the outside of a corner, the lead driver takes the line, and sometimes you end up in the rhubarb. Not blaming RUS...it was a simple racing wreck.
p.s. Are you talking about Imola? Hamilton didn't win. Your Hamilton hatred knows no bounds
Of course pressure is building on Checo. He is driving for RB. We talked about this when he signed the contract.
Maybe on 3rd driver they should look at themselves?.....
There's no place like home, Toto 🙄
I think there should brace the tunnel. Have a pitstop in France and go back to England.
Poor old Checo, he is a dam good driver only just in the RB he will come good.
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