Reflecting on the present struggles of Sergio Perez, Crimson Bull group boss Christian Horner reckoned that the function of being Max Verstappen’s team-mate is a vastly troublesome job to deal with.
Having struggled for pure tempo within the majority of the qualifying classes this 12 months, Sergio Perez’s future at Crimson Bull has been hanging within the stability for lengthy months.
The Guadalajara-born driver joined Crimson Bull in 2021, and helped his team-mate Max Verstappen win his first championship title that 12 months, enjoying a pivotal function on the title-deciding 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Nonetheless, he has did not ship a constant efficiency during the last couple of years. Perez has received 5 races with Crimson Bull, and completed second within the Drivers’ Championship final 12 months, however he has endured durations throughout which he merely struggled for outright tempo in qualifying.
After a powerful begin to the season, Crimson Bull elected to increase his contract by an additional two years which might see Perez race for the Milton Keynes-based outfit till not less than the top of the 2026 F1 season. Nonetheless, the Mexican struggled for tempo after his contract extension.
Requested concerning the problem of being the teammate of Max Verstappen at Crimson Bull, group boss Christian Horner reckons that it’s an immensely robust function to deal with.
“Nicely, I believe in all probability being Max’s teammates, the hardest drive in Components 1, as a result of he units such a excessive normal, such a excessive bar. And his performances are simply relentless.
“So anyone sat within the automotive alongside him has received to have super energy of character and have the power clearly to work inside a group and be capable of deal with themselves and to a level virtually ignore what is going on on within the different automotive as a result of I believe that is the place mentally, it turns into extremely robust, as we have seen with most of the greats.
“I am certain whenever you work with Michael Schumacher or Ayrton Senna beforehand, teammates had a equally arduous job. And Max now joins that elite group of individuals. It is so simple as that,” concluded Horner.
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