Perez at Red Bull - will the team regret their choice?Formula 1

[Har1MAS1415]

I have no ill will towards Perez, but after today, I never want to ever hear anyone complain about Valterri's tenure at Mercedes ever again.

You got a point there. Bottas was never as bad as this as Hamilton's teammate.

 

[Liquid]

2024
"Perez in the Red Bull gets past Logan Sargeant and now he's chasing the two Haases."

2006
"The Renault of Giancarlo Fisichella has cleared Yuji Ide and now has his focus on Robert Doornbos."

2000
"David Coulthard's McLaren is way down in 18th place but he's well ahead of Mazzacane and Gene."

1997
"The second Ferrari of Eddie Irvine is battling between Salo's Tyrrell and Katayama's Minardi."

1992
"McLaren's Gerhard Berger has made hard work of getting past Olivier Grouillard but now has a fight with Gabriele Tarquini."

Simply not good enough.

 

[Har1MAS1415]

2006
"The Renault of Giancarlo Fisichella has cleared Yuji Ide and now has his focus on Robert Doornbos."

In Friday practice? Ide only did the first 4 races and Doornbos only did the last 3 races.

Unless you mean Yamamoto.

 

[Liquid]

In Friday practice? Ide only did the first 4 races and Doornbos only did the last 3 races.

Unless you mean Yamamoto.

Don't overthink it, big man.

 

[Har1MAS1415]

Don't overthink it, big man.

I was not over-thinking it at all.

 

[Saidur_Ali]

With the Macs & Mercs now running away, my hombre gonna struggle to even be competing with Ferrari at this rate.

If Sargeant out-qualifies him again, I think it's "GG" for Checo & I'm not sure Daniel is even the right choice.

Red Bull should also be getting a sizeable upgrade which Checo was already looking forward to (Maybe too much as he seems to have been checked out for a while). Let's see if he can get comfortable with the car again as even Max looks like he is struggling with car since the last update. If Aston Martin manage to sort their car this weekend and Haas gets the upgrade ready for Kevin, it already gets tougher to score points if you are struggling as unless Red Bull make a clear step ahead of the others like last year and beginning of this year, being only a few tenths off can make it hard to score decent points. They don't have as large top speed and race pace advantage as before, even if he qualified towards the back, he could come through quickly. Now he sort of stays there as the cars in front have reasonable enough pace.

What would be more alarming to Red Bull last race potentially is it looked like they pitted him for fastest lap but he only managed to do a similar time as Alex who was on old tyres and over 7 tenths off Max who also did not pit for fresher tyres. Carlos did the same as him and was over 1.4 seconds quicker. Maybe Checo had some issue on his lap having not seen it but it would not be a good look if that was his pace. F1 is not easy though, you can see a driver like Charles up against it due to behaviour of car and questionable strategy so maybe he can rediscover his earlier form in the season if he gets given the time.

Anyway, it would be great if Mercedes can leap frog in outright pace ahead of Red Bull and McLaren this weekend if their update works and even got a great chance at Spa with a further update and if Max takes a power unit penalty there. Need Max to score like Checo has for the last few races to open up both championships further if RBR upgrades have a similar impact as RB rather than Haas.

 

[Har1MAS1415]

They're going to regret keeping him until the end of 2024!