Verstappen could have repaid Perez: 'It would have cost him nothing'

Nit sure why Red Bull had to ask Verstappen to swap his place with Perez. Someone with Verstappen 's experience should have known the importance of this himself and swapped places without asking. He has received good support from Perez in 2021 and 2022, and should have repaid the favour. I was a big fan of Verstappen, but this incident and intransigence has left a bad taste in my mouth.

Perez needs to start racing for the team and stop hanging behind cars and get his own points like Max.

The big thing now is while Mexico was the perfect situation to give Perez 2 very important points, Abu Dhabi with Perez and Charles on equal points it will be impossible to help. To let Perez pass by Max would mean Max must be just before Perez but if Charles is in front of them it does not matter and if Charles is behind them there is no need to let Perez pass.

All the psychoanalysts are hard at it today.

If Max told the team he wasn't not giving up his place during the race and Red Bull knew that, yet still made the call for him to move over, lawyers could be involved next. During the Multi 21 saga Vettel told the team his lawyers would be in contact with Red Bull over telling him to holding station when racing Webber. Max must have a real good reason for not letting Perez past but i don't think it was due to Monaco. That being said Max should have helped Perez as it was the smart and easy thing to do. I think he still had red mist from the contact with Lewis and wasn't thinking straight. Hothead like his dad.

People stop overanalyzing Monaco, Monaco is a smoke screen for Verstappen. It isn't about monaco, it is about putting Perez before Verstappen everytime at all cost, he is screaming that he is so insecure about himself that he need reassurance that stategy no matter what should be on to Maximize Max position not Perez regardless if there is championship position still at play, thats what Max is fighting for, m not telling this to endorse his behaviour but to put a light on how childish the conversations are. After the Monaco race he was Ok with Checo taking the win, but after he speak to his father -Jos-, suddenly he started being upset, there was even close door meeting on the allegations made by Max father before the Baku GP about how the team should look for the number 1 drive, the team at Monaco look at the board and took strategic gambles to Win and Maximize the points gathered, if they prioritize Max then Sainz should have Won it because Sainz went agaisnt Ferrrari head strategy and was able to undercut Max, Checo won because of his starting position only and ferrari strategy blunders but if the team decided to go Max way it was going to be a ballpark win for Sainz. Jos is the main culprit of the fracture of the team, the power he is still have over what Max think is incredible powerful, and that pressure is beggining to surface more and more, look at the ted vs max drama, now look at the max vs checo drama, this guy is imploding and now that the rabbit is out the hat thinks are getting hot, i doubt Checo would let this one thru, but he is still a professional driver, he knows when and how to make Max life little more difficult, it would be interesting how the media duties are given from now on.

Just like Perez himself, we should all put this incident behind, here's the thing, at Abu Dhabi we'll get to see who's the better driver, Perez or Leclerc, end of the story. Also, idk comprade, but wouldn't it feel a whole lot better if you won second place by your own merit instead of relying on something as your teammate slowing down to let you pass?... Perez should ask himself that question instead of bitching, as we all saw it, Maxes pace was much faster than his, I would have understood if they both were racing shoulder to shoulder til the end, but that just wasn't the case.

Very puzzling. He should have been above it. Something I would expect from some other drivers.

Verstappen had already told the team beforehand that he would not give up his position for Perez, for reasons well known within the team. Asking him on radio to yield anyhow was a stupid thing to do and Red Bull is mostly to blame for this, in my opinion.