{"id":101646,"date":"2025-08-28T07:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101646\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:48:09","slug":"sergio-perez-reveals-difficulty-of-red-bull-racing-being-max-verstappens-partner-daniel-ricciardo-liam-lawson-yuki-tsunoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/101646\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez reveals difficulty of Red Bull Racing, being Max Verstappen’s partner; Daniel Ricciardo, Liam Lawson, Yuki Tsunoda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergio Perez<\/a> has taken a victory lap of sorts, pointing to how well he managed as Max Verstappen’s<\/a> partner at Red Bull<\/a>, compared to how things stand now. <\/p>\n

Perez was booted as Verstappen’s partner at the end of 2024 and replaced by Liam Lawson, who only lasted two races before he was switched out for Yuki Tsuonda.<\/p>\n

Tsunoda sits 18th in the drivers’ standings and has struggled to adapt to a Red Bull car that Perez described as nearly impossible to drive, given how tailored it is for the Dutch superstar. <\/p>\n

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Meanwhile Perez had second and third place finishes to his name alongside Vestappen across 2022 and 2023, showing he was able to make the most of the car.<\/p>\n

The Mexican was recently unveiled as one of the drivers for the new Cadillac F1 team alongside Valtteri Bottas.<\/p>\n

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Mexican driver Sergio ‘Checo’ Perez unveiled as part of the Cadillac F1 team.\u00a0Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Speaking after the announcement, Perez spoke about the difficulties of being Verstappen’s partner at Red Bull, talking up his ability to last as long as he did in that car.<\/p>\n

He partnered Max for four seasons, one more than Aussie Daniel Ricciardo<\/a>, who was Verstappen’s first F1 partner.<\/p>\n

“It’s just the whole dynamics of the team,” he told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, they have a unique talent over there with Max. It’s very difficult for the second driver that is there to basically adapt to the car.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very unique car, very unique driving style that I managed, I’d say, to survive for many years. But it’s difficult and it’s the way it works, you know, and you’ve seen it with great drivers just before my time or even after my time.<\/p>\n

“I think Yuki and Liam, they’ve scored like (seven) points or something like that.<\/p>\n

“So it is very, very difficult, very tricky. And they’re fantastic drivers, you know, but it’s just the way it is to drive it. It’s just a very unique driving style.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes I could cope with it, I could adapt to it, but as soon as there was a variable with the rain, with the wind or something, it just became undriveable.<\/p>\n

“And then you start making mistakes one after the other, you are losing confidence \u2013 but mentally I was super strong and that’s why I survived there for so long, because I did have a lot of pressure and a lot of you guys (journalists) were onto me.<\/p>\n

“And now you realise the job I’ve done in that car and that team.”<\/p>\n

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Red Bull drivers.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Ricciardo was able to match Verstappen during his time at Red Bull across 2017 and 2018 in particular and could take a similar stance to Perez if he wanted.<\/p>\n

Pierre Gasly and Alexander Albon struggled mightily in the Red Bull car between Ricciardo and Perez, in a similar fashion to Tsunoda and Lawson this season.<\/p>\n

The new face of Cadillac did say that Verstappen was quick to congratulate him on the news.<\/p>\n

“They seem to miss me. I will say the first one was Max (Verstappen), he was straight on,” Perez told reporters.<\/p>\n

“Teammates, Gasly, Franco (Colapinto), they did send a message, and we have a group where most times they put a message, so it was nice to see that they are happy to see me back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez has taken a victory lap of sorts, pointing to how well he managed as Max Verstappen’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-101646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}