Sitting with the assembled journalists at a high table in Red Bull’s hospitality unit at Zandvoort last Thursday, Sergio Pérez seemed lighter than usual. Formula One’s summer break does the whole paddock a world of good. For the drivers, it’s the chance to put aside the competitive stresses that come with their territory for a couple of weeks. They can spend less time on planes and more time with their families, friends and loved ones. The break was important for Pérez. He’d been through a tricky first half of the season. Four races in, Pérez had been tied with Verstappen for wins...
Sitting with the assembled journalists at a high table in Red Bull’s hospitality unit at Zandvoort last Thursday, Sergio Pérez seemed lighter than usual.does the whole paddock a world of good. For the drivers, it’s the chance to put aside the competitive stresses that come with their territory for a couple of weeks. They can spend less time on planes and more time with their families, friends and loved ones.The break was important for Pérez.
Yet once he was back on the track at Zandvoort, there was no escaping the reality of the gulf between him and Verstappen. On Saturday,Verstappen qualified seven places and 1.3 seconds ahead of Pérez, a gap so large that Mercedes boss Toto Wolff called it “odd” and “bizarre.” “Checo is not an idiot,” he said. “We have seen it over these years, Checo is a multiple Grand Prix winner. So I cannot comprehend .
The gulf between the Red Bull drivers had certainly grown since the beginning of the season when Pérez managed to go toe-to-toe with Verstappen twice and win. But why?Part of it comes down to confidence. Pérez admitted just before the summer break that his crash in the first round of qualifying in Monaco in late May had knocked him a bit, making a mistake on a track where he had won the previous year. He, all but one of his victories coming on those layouts.
Pérez’s crash in Monaco sparked a run of six races in a row where he failed to qualify inside the top 10, while Verstappen kept winning. As the RB19 has been developed, those same characteristics have grown stronger. Pérez cited the “sharpness” as being something he needed to adapt to and that it was “medium and high-speed that I’ve been struggling with — and that is especially when we had tricky conditions, did take away some of the confidence.”
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