Why Red Bull understands Verstappen but struggles with his teammates

"I don't think it's necessarily a problem with the car, but rather with the drivers. Pérez, for example, had some really bad days but could also win in that car. That's already more than what Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda have achieved," began the Australian on his YouTube channel. He noted that Perez would now be looking sourly at the performance of the drivers who replaced him as Verstappen's teammate.

"It mainly comes down to Red Bull being very poor at developing their drivers, unless they are as talented as Verstappen. They seem to be totally oblivious to where they are lacking in the development of, for example, Daniel Ricciardo or Yuki Tsunoda," continued the 73-year-old. The key to success is understanding and improving the weaknesses of drivers, but that's exactly where they went wrong with Ricciardo.

Windsor felt that the Austrian team didn’t pay enough attention to his compatriot at the time, even though he was often able to keep up with Verstappen during their time together at the team. “The team never pushed him to improve in the areas where he was lacking,” the journalist said.

According to Windsor, this pattern has repeated itself with all other drivers that Red Bull has gone through over the years. The Australian suggests that Christian Horner's team spend more time analyzing the areas for improvement of their second driver, Tsunoda in this case.

Was there also another solution to replace Perez? Definitely, the F1 analyst saw a clearly better option than promoting Lawson. "They should have signed Carlos Sainz. If he was in the second Red Bull, he would score more points than Tsunoda and Lawson. That reveals another problem within the team, they have very clear opinions about which drivers they want and don't want, and they need to get over that," concluded Windsor.