Sergio Perez has addressed his time racing for Red Bull and the constant complaints he received, saying that “everything was a problem.”<\/p>\n
Perez joined Red Bull at the start of the 2021 season to replace Alex Albon, before the Mexican driver parted ways with the Milton Keynes-based outfit at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n
However, he will return to F1 this year, having joined Cadillac on a multi-year contract, where he will partner Valtteri Bottas.<\/p>\n
For Perez, it offers a chance to end his career on a high, having reached an incredible low in his final season with Red Bull.<\/p>\n
Initially, Perez impressed alongside Max Verstappen, occasionally beating the four-time world champion.<\/p>\n
In 2023, the 35-year-old finished second in the standings \u00a0\u2013 behind the Dutchman \u2013 to secure Red Bull its first one-two in the drivers’ championship.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, it all went wrong for Perez after an initially strong start to 2024, with a consistent run of poor performances leading to his split with Red Bull.<\/p>\n
Discussing what happened at Red Bull, Perez told the Crack podcast: “We had the best team. Unfortunately everything fell apart. We had the team to dominate the sport for the next 10 years, I think.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And unfortunately it all ended, but I was in the best team, in a complicated team, right? Because being Max\u2019s team-mate at Red Bull is already very difficult, but being Max\u2019s team-mate at Red Bull is the best and the worst job in F1, by far.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And well, everyone forgot, right? When I arrived at Red Bull, I started getting results, everything. Everyone forgot how difficult it was to be in that seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And I was very aware of what I was getting into \u2013 I wasn\u2019t arriving at Red Bull to compete against one of the best.”<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tPerez’s Red Bull dilemma<\/p>\n
Like the vast majority of drivers to partner Verstappen, Perez struggled to match the 28-year-old on a regular basis.<\/p>\n
During his time with Red Bull, Perez’s main difficulties arose when upgrades were introduced, as they had been tailored to Verstappen’s driving style.<\/p>\n
Perez’s best results often came in the opening rounds, when the car was at its heaviest and gave him added confidence.<\/p>\n
According to the returning driver, beating Verstappen caused tension within the Red Bull camp, with everything he did creating problems.<\/p>\n
Asked what he was doing wrong at Red Bull, Perez responded: “Everything, pretty much everything. At Red Bull everything was a problem. If I was very fast, it was a problem.<\/p>\n
“Because, of course, it created a very tense environment at Red Bull. If I was faster than Max, it was a problem. If I was slower than Max, it was a problem. So everything was a problem.<\/p>\n
“So I also learned a lot, right? That, well, the circumstances I\u2019m in, instead of complaining, I have to make the best of it and get the most out of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez has addressed his time racing for Red Bull and the constant complaints he received, saying that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-394424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394424","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=394424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}