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Perez at ease at Red Bull: 'Clearly suits his driving style'
- GPblog.com
After Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, Sergio Perez is the third driver this season with a race win behind his name. The Mexican picked up his second win in Monaco in the Red Bull Racing colours and as a result he is now just fifteen points off championship leader Verstappen and has a new contract secure with the team.
According to Martin Brundle, an analyst at Sky Sports, it is extraordinary that Perez is rebounding so much and the former F1 driver thinks that the new regulations are one of the reasons for that. "These new ground-effect aerodynamic 2022 cars clearly suit his driving style." Teammate Verstappen is having a much harder time with those new regulations.
Verstappen can be satisfied
Because where the Dutchman was well ahead of Perez on speed in 2021, that gap is now extremely small. Not only in terms of points, but also on speed. In Monaco, the Mexican was even faster than Verstappen, who therefore saw it as a reward that he was on the podium in the Principality.
"In third place was a surprisingly content Max Verstappen, presumably because he had his current championship rival Leclerc behind him. Max was missing a fraction all weekend for some reason and was behind Perez in that respect," According to Brundle, Red Bull can leave Monaco very satisfied because all weekend everything pointed to Ferrari having the fastest car. A first and third place for Red Bull is a very strong result for the team, because Ferrari was clearly faster