Sergio Perez’s father has suggested Max Verstappen would struggle for performance if he drove the other Red Bull car.<\/p>\n
Perez endured a difficult 2024 campaign and parted ways with the Milton Keynes-based squad at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
The Mexican driver failed to progress into the final stage of qualifying on nine occasions and ended the year 285 points adrift of Verstappen who secured his fourth F1 title.<\/p>\n
He was replaced by Liam Lawson who faced similar struggles and lasted just two rounds before being sent back to Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n
Perez Senior has suggested the second car at Red Bull is fundamentally distinct to Verstappen’s machine, creating a performance differential.<\/p>\n
“What I’m about to say will cause a lot of commotion, but the car with number 1 [Verstappen] was not the same as the car with number 11 (Perez],\u201d he said on the podcast Formula de 2.<\/p>\n
“And if you were to put the driver of car 1 in car 11, he won’t get out of Q1 in qualifying either and he won’t pass the car with number 1. If you put the driver from car 1 in car 11, he doesn’t do any better.<\/p>\n
“So it does lie with the car. The cars were not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawson’s exit from the team has allowed Yuki Tsunoda to step up to the senior team as he gets his chance at the Milton Keynes-based outfit.<\/p>\n
Perez Senior is hopeful Tsunoda can enjoy a positive debut at home race at Suzuka.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope things are different today and that in Japan Yuki has the best car Red Bull can give him,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey cannot disappoint the Japanese fans, they have to give Yuki the best means to fight. And so he has to have the same car.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez’s father has suggested Max Verstappen would struggle for performance if he drove the other Red Bull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[859,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-1658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-racing","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114271770856933670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}