Perez reveals 'Red Bull updates made me slower, Verstappen faster'
After a very strong start for Sergio Perez, Max Verstappen has put things right at Red Bull Racing over the last few races. After the Mexican's victory in Monaco, it looked as though he could pose a serious challenge to the Dutchman in the championship. However, the gap has widened over the last few races and Perez is already third in the standings.
At the beginning of the year it was clear that the RB18 suited Perez's driving style much better than Verstappen's. Updates have changed that, however, as the three-time race winner explains in conversation with Sport Bild. "At the beginning of the season I had top speed. Now we have further developed the car and it no longer suits my driving style 100 percent."
Learning to cope with updates
According to Perez, he now needs to adapt as the car with all the updates now suits Verstappen's driving style. It could be a reason for Perez's lesser results and Verstappen's recent victories. "I have to get used to it as quickly as possible and hope that we'll go more in the direction we had at the start of the season".
Then Perez can attack again in his Red Bull, he expects. Nevertheless, he remains motivated to achieve good results. After all, with Red Bull he can drive for the first time at a team where they win the constructors' title. "That's exactly what motivates me. If I wasn't in such a top car, I probably wouldn't be in this sport anymore," Perez concluded.
Yes Perez we know you were the sacrificial lamb. Unfortunately RBR fans won't see that because they are too busy with conspiracies that George is being sacrificed for Lewis when infact Lewis was sacrificing his own performance to try out stuff
Only one thing is sure. The oversteer direction widens the gap between Max and Checo. It is not sure Max is faster with the oversteery car, than he was with the balanced one at the beginning of the season. It is unquestionable, that he has enormous talent to control and compensate the loose end of the racecars, and this makes difference between him and his teammates. But this does not necessary mean that he is faster with an oversteery car than a balanced one. At the beginning of the season Ferrari had a minimal advantage and now has at least the same (or more) advantage based on the latest races. The only thing that changed after tha oversteery developement, is that Perez is out of the leading pack. Verstappen did not gain any extra pace compared to the Ferraris.
Indeed, he stayed with the Ferrari`s, but they also got faster
You do realize Red Bull aren't the only ones introducing updates? F1 always has been a race of development too, it's not like Ferrari or even Merc are sitting on their asses all the time. Simply put, Max is able to keep up with the Ferrari's because of these updates. But glad to see people at least acknowledge Max being able to adjust to different specs and not losing out on too much if any performance. All the full marks he got from the mid season driver ratings are justified.
It's like I have always said , the uodates for Redbull was not about making the car faster it was about making the car more suited to Max cause Pérezwas showing the Redbull number one up and that couldn'thappen. .
Whahahahaha, so a team makes the car potentially slower, just to please his main driver? Especially how close it is with Ferrari? I mean, you really believe this BS you are trying to sell?? It is completely ignoring all logic. But, we know who is making the comment, which explains it all.... Perez needs to adjust. After all, even with an understeering car, Verstappen was able to win. Surely Perez can with an oversteered car?
Like we said, a top driver can still perform with it. But reading is difficult, I know ;-)
Thanks for what? Showing you are delusional? Your welcome mate. Again, stick with the subject. Not everything is abour Max or Lewis for that matter.
Again mate, what does LEWIS has to do with this? Stay with it mate! We are talking about PEREZ, the teammate of Verstappen, at RED BULL. Get some help, you are no longer able to focus on the subjects. As to the data, you can look that up on a site, will send the link again when I am back home. Qualifying pace, race pace, all there to your hearts content. Take some tranquilizers before viewing thoug, you might.not like what you see. Facts indeed do matter.
Mate Lewis won with the 5th best car , 4th best car and 3rd best car . Max has not won more than Lewis did in slower cars , the stats show this, mate. The Mercedes was never one eec ahead of the competition, mate and here again the data confirms it . Lewis has consistently won every year of his career mate facts matter
Difficult to grasp Max won more without even having the best car in those days right? So clearly he showed. Off.course, when the car is a sec a lap slower, there is only so much you can do, but still impressive. He performed, (almost) always. Now up to Perez to do the same. That is what he is payed for. Pathetic to bring that up though, at least ensure there is some truth or point in it. We are comparing TEAM mates here. Last time I checked, Max never drove for Merc ( or want to ever)
Perez does not want a car that understeers ffs. Can't believe how little knowledge of driving is displayed by everyone in these comments or even common sense. Every car on the grid is quite oversteer ish. And none of us could get around a track in them without oversteer spinning them. The goal fo most is a slightly more neutral handling car but oversteer and understeer are opposite ends of the spectrum. Max just prefers the most oversteer apparently.
Nice to see that you finally confirmed that Red Bull doesn't have the fastest car. That Max must be a top driver.
Race pace Perez can't compare to Max this season sorry bud
None of the red bull fans will believe you Sergio even if you are correct. If you don't like being the second driver, move to some other team
I know F1 prefers the terms oversteer and understeer. In North America we prefer to refer to the conditions as pushy (understeer) and loose (oversteer). Most people can relate to these terms in relation to their own vehicles. A loose car will go wherever you aim it, so if you have proper technique with your throttle it's much easier to control. Conversely if you have a car that pushes, when you try to turn the front wheels they "snowplow", rather than following where they're aimed they begin to slide and the entire car follows them. Cars that push are a danger when a driver is trying to pass in a corner leading to a lot of unnecessary contract. If you prefer driving a vehicle the pushes, perhaps go carts are a better option than F1 If Sergio can't deal with driving a car that doesn't slide all over the track, perhaps Red Bull needs to find a driver that can and Checo can Drive for AT.
A loser statement. If you are good enough you can mold yourself in a manner that you assume car control, not the other way around.
Exactly, look at George taking over for Lewis in 2020. Would have won if not for the sabotaged pit stop.
Hahaha, why on earth would that surprise you PER………. Poor Sergio……..
Red Bull needed to make the car faster in order to be able to get closer to the Ferrari, which were clearly a faster car at most tracks. They could either have a compromised set up which made the car easier to drive (for Perez) but wasn't to its maximum potential in the hands of Max. Alternatively, they had to tweak it so that Max could make it get a lot closer to the Ferrari's speed but needed a different driving style to extract the most out of it, which wasnt quite to Checo's driving style. The RB is becoming closer to its handling characteristics of being 'pointy' and sharper at the front end, like it used to be in previous years, that Gasly & Albon couldnt quite get the hang of driving it quickly either.
Or another way to say it without all the sugar coating is: Max didn't like the car so we changed it to suit his driving style.
i understand the different driving styles of teammates. this has always been an "issue" to some extent in many years at many teams. BUUUUT, what i don't understand is that, why doesn't tweak a team the cars of their drivers individually to their liking, to extract the best possible potential of their cars AND drivers? i mean, this would be possible, or?
Maybe there was also an option to make the car faster in Perez's hands.
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