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Gasly on Pérez’s Red Bull F1 difficulties: “There’s clearly something that is missing at the moment between the two”

Sergio Pérez’s future at Red Bull is at serious risk after three and a half seasons together, in spite of the recently announced 2-year contract renewal. The gap between the two Red Bull drivers is enormous: 137 points separate championship leader Max Verstappen and Pérez. The 34-year-old is now 6th in the Drivers’ Championship, and…

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Horner: “It’s unsustainable to not be scoring points” as Pérez’s rut of F1 form leaves Red Bull vulnerable in the championship

The last few races have not been kind for Sergio Pérez’s side of the garage, and Red Bull has been feeling the heat as their rivals inched closer in every race. The Mexican has only scored 15 points since May’s Miami Grand Prix which was six rounds ago, while teammate Max Verstappen has managed to…

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Perez confident his future at Red Bull F1 is not at risk, while Ricciardo assures he would “never make any predictions in this sport”

The sun does not seem to rise for Sergio Pérez. The Mexican Red Bull driver faced his third exit in Q1 of the season after struggling in a very rainy session at Silverstone. Driving on softs following a lap for everyone on inters at the start of Q1, Pérez spun off at Copse in tricky…

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F1 | British GP | Qualifying | Russell leads Mercedes 1-2 in Silverstone; Verstappen P4 as Perez goes out in Q1

Q1 After a rain-hit FP3 session and some more rain in between the sessions, the start of qualifying for the British GP saw the sun come out between the clouds, but the track was still damp from the earlier weather. Most drivers headed out on the green-walled intermediate tyres in the damp circuit. But Valtteri…

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F1 Austrian GP a “disaster of a race” as I was “lacking so much pace” due to sidepod damage — Pérez

Formula 1 arrived in Spielberg, with it the round of the Austrian Grand Prix, which meant adding another complicated weekend to the row of underwhelming performances for the Mexican Red Bull driver. Pérez started a dramatic race on the medium tyre from 8th position. He took advantage of the fight between Piastri, Leclerc and himself…

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Ferrari’s Barcelona updates “comes with other limitations” after difficult F1 Austrian GP weekend — Leclerc

For the second time in three Grands Prix, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc failed to finish in the points. Starting P6, he had Oscar Piastri and Sergio Pérez either side of him heading into turn 1. As he tried to back out of it to avoid contact, the McLaren driver clipped his front wing and was forced…

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F1 | Austrian GP | Race | Russell wins in extraordinary circumstances as Verstappen and Norris collide in closing stages

Everyone was on mediums aside from Zhou Guanyu who went for hards. The Chinese driver started in the pits following set-up changes. Verstappen got away well, comfortably leading Norris. The McLaren driver had to defend hard against Russell up to turn 3. Lewis Hamilton cleared Carlos Sainz for 4th but took to the run off….

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“We paid a little bit the price” for having no new softs in Q3 at F1 Austrian GP — Pérez

As McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes move closer to Red Bull’s pace and performance, it is vital for the team to have strong results from both drivers to optimise race results and fend off potential challenges in the Constructors’ Championship. Max Verstappen has once again demonstrated his driving prowess, despite the numerous issues he’s faced with…

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F1 | Austrian GP | Qualifying | Verstappen dominates to take pole from Norris and Russell

Q1 Max Verstappen was first out of the pits and logged a 1:06.054 to kick things off, with Sergio Perez just under 0.2s away. A 1:05.941 from Carlos Sainz saw the Spaniard break the 66s barrier to go fastest. However, that was beaten by 0.040s seconds later by teammate Charles Leclerc. Norris and Piastri managed…

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“I was quite front-limited and had too much understeer” — Sergio Pérez reflects on “nightmare” F1 Spanish GP

Sergio Pérez started the 10th round of the F1 championship, the Spanish Grand Prix, from eleventh on the grid. This starting position was not ideal and he could do with his RB20. Although he managed to pass Nico Hülkenberg and both Alpine drivers, he was a distant P8. The Mexican got stuck behind Nico Hülkenberg…

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