Sergio P✤erez’s father has commented upon his son’s relationship with Max Verstappen.

The two Red Bull drivers have not always got along smoothly but, this seꦬason, have worked on-track ꩲlike a well-oiled machine.

♏“They are two tigers in the same cage, is what I have told them,” Antonio Perez told  in Mexico.

“And if you ask me, who would you lik🍸e to see Checo team up with, I would say the best 🍰in the world.

“So however it is today, Checo is the second 𒁃best in the world in Formula One.”

He also insisted:&n✅bsp;"The best of Checo Perez has 𝓰not yet been seen.”

The relationship between the tw🎶o Red Bull drivers has mellowed this season, after exp🐷loding last year.

Verstappen refused team orders at the back end of 2023, after already claim💫ing the cham✨pionship, which were intended to help Perez.

He the🍎n insisted it was not his job to assist his teammate in finishing second overall in the championship.

Verstappen referred to an incident🐠 earlier in the season, in Mo🌺naco qualifying, where he was hampered by a Perez crash.

Perez has secured three P2 finishes in five F1 grands prix this season, each time with Verst♌appen winning the race.

That series of results repreꦕsents the dream scenario for the dominant Red Bull team.

At last weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix, Perez ceded P2 to Lando Norris and was forced to settle for P3,✱ but Christian Horner insisted his No2 driver was unfortunate.

The run of positive results that Perez has strung together, in Verstappen’s shadow, is the best possible re🔯sponse to the pressure he is under to keep his Red Bull drive.

Perez’s contract expires this year and the best car in F1 would be coveted by most 🅘drivers on the grid.

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz - the winner of the past two grands prix thaꦯt Red Bull failed to win - is among theಌ options to replace Perez.