Sergio Perez says Red Bull Racing have Max Verstappen and him fighting for the championship. The two are very close. The difference between the Dutchman and the Mexican is just six points. Perez told Sky Sports that the Dutchman will not be put ahead.
"I think we've been treated equally. I've had as much opportunity as Max, especially now at the start of the season where we are both fighting," Perez said. "The team are letting us fight and they've shown when we are fighting as we did in Jeddah and Baku, they let us race. I think Red Bull are showing how it should be and how a team should behave in these situations." added the Guadalajara-born driver.
Red Bull treats Perez and Verstappen equally
Still Red Bull has not used team orders when it comes to the battle between the two top drivers. For now, the title battle is between the two Red Bull drivers. Between Perez and number three Alonso are a whopping 27 points.
Christian Horner indicated earlier that neither driver will be favoured over the other. Both Verstappen and Perez will therefore have to win the championship entirely on their own merits. Helmut Marko has also revealed that he is happy with the decision not to give team orders.
No Checo No. According to some other drivers fans and some people you're not getting the same treatment as Max. Because they know a lot more than you. You're just a driver. You can't know these things. But these so called fans know all about it.
Perez driving so fast, even the crafty machinations wheels just can't keep up. But such is what sheer talent does, no barrier can withstand you! They simply have no choice but to be for you than against you. Go Checo!
The Max haters always seem to forget other teams have their favorite driver that is going to get all resorten and attention. Mercedes/hamilton vs bottas/rosberg for example.
Hopefully a certain militant vegetarian reads this. Then again why should facts get in the way of feelings?
Another publicity statement. Obviously he can't go on tv and say he's being unfaired or seen as lessor to Max. We all know it Checo and last week's radio message to Max further cemented it
Dude do you have a life other than this blog? You Lewis fans live in an alternate reality. If Max wins it is because he is favored or more times than not that Checo is a crappy driver and that he was put there to make Max look better than he actually is (the reality of Bottas/Hamilton) teammate matchup. Then when Checo wins it is because Checo is actually better than Max but he has still "Risen Above" despite the team favoring MAX. In your alternate reality it can be whatever you want it to be at that moment in time. But for the rest of us with meaningful careers and lives we can only have facts to determine what we believe is correct. I almost envy you. No thought is ever needed in anything you say here. It's as if you're a teenager.
You're celebrating trolls posts now? Of course you are. You're both needing and wanting that article to be true, but you can't see past it's thin layers and that it's just a PR bit from Perez to try and control the media. Both drivers will have been instructed to make out to the press that there's no friction and they respect each other and that all is just fine and dandy. Go ahead and think that if you have evidence for it. But to believe it becaues of wishful thinking is foolish.
You know nothing about me so don't get into my personal life, you'll end up embarrassing yourself. As i said, checo and the world over knows Max is favored, Ray Charles can see that, then why cant you. Look at what Horner said to Max, if that doesn't scream favouritism, then i don't know what does. Maybe you've never been favoured in your life to tell the difference, so you are free ro take out your frustration, I'll understand
LOL! A Lewis fan talking about team favoritism. After the Bottas/Hamilton ERA we all got a Masterclass in Favoritism. Again, not helping your cause by bringing up something like this without acknowledging all of what Toto has done and said to try and prop up Lewis and his obvious failings. All while ignoring both George and Bottas. Not a well thought out rebuttal. But the best you could do.
"Do you believe Bottas was the 2nd best driver on the grid?? 3rd, 4th 5th-10th???. No reasonable sane person would say that he was the best choice for a teammate to compete head-to-head with Lewis. To stay behind Lewis and support Lewis yes but to push Lewis NO! " I didn't mention anything about Bottas in terms of how good he was. I simply stated that he wasn't classed as a No2 driver at Mercedes because that isn't Mercedes policy. Your assertion tha I'm not a sane person is uncalled for. But it does show what you think of people who have a different opinion to you. That's irrational. To use your own words, do you think Albon, Gasly and Perez were the best choice for a teammate to compete head-to-head with Max. To stay behind Max and support Max yes but to push Max NO! "The fact that he did speaks volumes about Lewis's skill and only further illustrates why Lewis is struggling to stay competitive against George right now. " This is just another example of an antagonistic statement that you write just for that purpose. The fact that Bottas beat Lewis speaks to Bottas, not Lewis. If you both have the best car, sometimes your team-mate will beat you. As we've seen from Red Bull from this season and previous seasons. Lewis isn't struggling against George at all. Perhaps go look at the stats thus far and be honest about it. "Bottas the last two years shows us exactly how low his skill level is compared to the young guns out there." What it is showing is what you want to show so that it fits your narrative. Bottas isn't in the dominant car any more. How he's performing in the Alfa Romeo doesn't reflect on his skill level against the young guns. Most of the young guns are in better cars. Bottas comfortably beat his team-mate in 2022 but finishing 10th while his team-mate was 18th in the championship. In 2023, he is currently 12th and Zhou in 16th. So I'm not sure why you think Zhou is driving faster. If he is, he's not turning it into results. "Again I understand your need to defend Lewis after he has been exposed. " Yet another antagonistic comment. See, you don't get to complain about how I respond to you or others when you others make comments such as this. I don't care about defending Lewis. He doesn't need me to defend him. What I stand up to is the BS, the nonsense and the lies. And on here, that just always happens to be against Lewis. That's a choice you guys made, not me. And Lewis has not been exposed at all. I could argue Max is being exposed by Perez right now as he's clearly able to dominate just like Max is this year. "You have invested so much time and effort into trying to convince people Lewis is something that in reality he is not that you need to keep desperately saying anything in his defense to justify your wasted time. " Again you are mistaken. I am not remotely interested in trying to convince people anything about Lewis. I have no illusions that trolls are suddenly going to change their entrenched opinions about Lewis. I don't care if they do or don't. Again, it's not about Lewis, it's about the trolling. I've spent time today defending George because that's where the BS and trolling has been directed at recently. It's my time to waste so don't worry about it. "Worthwhile employment is time better spent but you do what you want. " Of course I'm going to do what I want. And when I do, you're still going to complain about it aren't you?
That was only PR stuff. Bottas and all of the world knew he was their nr. 2 driver.
Bizzarre again! Do you believe Bottas was the 2nd best driver on the grid?? 3rd, 4th 5th-10th???. No reasonable sane person would say that he was the best choice for a teammate to compete head-to-head with Lewis. To stay behind Lewis and support Lewis yes but to push Lewis NO! For god's sake it's amazing he even bet Lewis at all. The fact that he did speaks volumes about Lewis's skill and only further illustrates why Lewis is struggling to stay competitive against George right now. Bottas the last two years shows us exactly how low his skill level is compared to the young guns out there. Even his teammate (who is not that good) is driving faster. Again I understand your need to defend Lewis after he has been exposed. You have invested so much time and effort into trying to convince people Lewis is something that in reality he is not that you need to keep desperately saying anything in his defense to justify your wasted time. Worthwhile employment is time better spent but you do what you want.
You're celebrating trolls posts now? Of course you are. You're both needing and wanting that to be true, but go ahead and think that if you have evidence for it. But to believe it becaues of wishful thinking is foolish.
If you really think Bottas could beat Hamilton on a normal day, something is wrong with you. The same Max you bow down to said so. Go ask him. But don't stray from the point, the 2 yrs Checo's been at RB he hasn't had the same opportunities and support as Max, only this season it appears so because RB is in the fight alone. What happened in Baku had it been the other way around, you think Horner would be on the radio telling Checo that Max got lucky with the safety car? Favouritism at it's best. Anyhow i have no more energy to waste with you
Bottas was not considered a No.2 driver at Mercedes. That he wasn't able to keep up with Lewis didn't mean Lewis was favoured. It's never been Mercedes' policy to have a No1/No2 driver structure. They still don't. If Lewis is favoured by Mercedes, explain 2022. Bottas has won 10 races at Mercedes, Perez has won 6 at Red Bull. So you can hardly make the argument for Bottas. You're trying to mask the way Red Bull favours it's No.1 driver by deflecting the argument away from it. That shows that you know different to what you're putting out. Not a well-thought-out rebuttal, but the best you could do. Oh and find me a radio message from Toto to Lewis, after a Bottas win, where he needed to be told not to worry as it was 'just lucky' from Bottas and the season is long.
I really think you are very clearly mistaken favouritism with actually given someone a preferential treatment as in: team orders, better equipment, strategy etc. Favouritism...sure, I agree it would be best for RB if their best and most paid driver wins the championship. Preferential treatment has not happened tho (not until there already was a big gap), even tho some desperately want to believe thats the only way Max could win from Perez. ? The 0.4-0.5s Max has been faster than Checo these last few years are totally fake as well I assume
When you reply like a troll, as you do, why do you always have to get personal? Why can't you just make your counter-argument instead? Do you have one? Or is it your lack of a counter-argument that makes you troll instead? This stuff from Perez is pure PR so the media can't make stories to the contrary. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this is Red Bull protecting themselves from the accusations that they get on this subject. They think by getting Perez to deny it, that it will make the accusations go away, but it won't because some people aren't that gullible and we see what's going on.
"Valtteri, this is James behind you, move over please" "Lewis, this is Fernando ahead of you, good luck"
Wow do you pounce on everything just to be negative towards RB and Max?
And you know what? I'm doing nothing different from you or the rest of your fellow Lewis haters. But you'll only see it now. As i said, publicity stunt from Checo. EVERYONE knows he's not favored at RB. Even you pretenders on here
I just hope someone hugs you and I hope you will one day find love and attention you need.
@LH44, Hammer-time: You're right on your points. I see it as > The goal of this statement from Pérez is to influence public opinion and perception in a desired direction. He is using these public statements of fairness and equal treatment to pressure Red Bull to do exactly those things. It can be seen as a form of manipulation or persuasion and is commonly used in politics, business, and other areas where public perception is important. Will Red Bull want to do anything that appears to not be fair and equal? Pérez is playing the game, and he is currently doing an amazing job of making life uncomfortable for Horner and Max's side of the garage. ?
This is simply Red Bull not wanting the media to think there's a weakness or friction there. Perez last year was saying something very different. This is a weak attempt to quash things that we already know are true. Poor Perez. I hope he doesn't really believe this nonsense. As you said, the radio message, the fact that he was completely used to help Max in 2021. He was never equally treated there. Why would anything change? Was he treated equally in Brazil by Max? Nope. Horner even defended Max. Pure PR, that's all it is.
Just like Bottas has done in his years at Mercedes. He was their nr. 2 driver and only for PR reasons they told he got a equal change. Poor Bottas, it even went so far that he almost quit the sport because of his supporting role at Mercedes.
can't remember you said something about the fact Lewis fired Angela. you are the personification of a troll
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