Key Sergio Perez trait identified that separates him from failed Red Bull drivers
Red Bull are notoriously demanding of their drivers and many have passed through their ranks - Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon are examples who didn’t make the grade but have recovered to forge F1 careers.
This approach has put Red Bull on top of the Formula 1 world, with star driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen the winner of the past three championships.
Perez, whose form nose-dived so badly that it created noise about his ꦅown future this year, possess🎃es one crucial attribute that has allowed him to hang around at Red Bull, Horner claims.
“If y⭕ou’re not psychologically strong you won’t cope being [Max’s] teammate, it’s as simple as that,” the team principal told the Sky F1 podcast.
“He’s just relentless 💃in his pace, in the way that he operates.&nb🗹sp;
“I think that’s one of the positives for Checo, he’s had the stre𓄧ngth of character of being able to 𓆉deal with that.
“We’ve seen that ൲break others in the past. It’s a tough g♎ig to be his teammate.”
Daniel Ricci🦄ardo, Gasly and Albon have eac📖h teamed with Verstappen during his rise to glory at Red Bull.
Horner insists that Perez’s mental strength to cope with Verstappen’s brilliance is wh𝔉🍒at has allowed him to maintain his position in the second car.
“We a🐻lways field the most compet🌼itive cars we can,” Horner said.
“There’s never a difference between the two cars. We had an era with Sebastian where he was incredibly dominant and it was difficult to be his teaဣmmate.
“Now with Max, exactly the same thing. He’s a machine. He’s certainly the best drဣiver currently in F1 as a t🔥hree-time world champion and to be his teammate is incredibly tough.”
But Hor✅ner also picked out the a🐬rea which Perez must improve.
“His biggest resolution would be to sort his qualifying꧟ out.
“That has been his achilles heel at certain point🐼s this year.&nbs𓄧p;
“I think if he can do tha💝t, his race pace is always strong, he races very we⛎ll.
“We n🌱eed him qualifying nearer the front, nearer to Max, putting more pressure on.
“We can’t afford him to go missing at certain points of the champion𒁃sh𒁏ip and have that consistency.
“He finished secondꦗ this year, third last year, fourth the year before, so he’s on the right trajectory!”
Perez clung onto P2 inও the drivers’ standings this year, improving one place from 2022🀅.
Although Perez’s immediate future at Red Bull appears secure, despite mounting doubt through 2023, it will swiftly ꦫcome under pressure again when the new season begins.
He is out of contract in 2025 and in p൩ossession of the quick▨est car on the Formula 1 grid.
Ricciardo, now at AlphaTauri, is heavily linked with a retur🌳n to Red Bull to replace him.
James was a sports journalist at Sky S💟ports for ♊a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
