It is clear that aCheco’Pérez It doesn’t benefit him at all to be compared to his teammate Max Verstappen. The Mexican driver experiences a very difficult end to the season and the decline in the team’s performances Red Bull He exposed his shortcomings as a pilot.
Inside the race,’Czech’ takes refuge in the decent rhythm of Red Bull but it’s in the classifications that it really suffers. Inside Las Vegas Grand PrixPérez was excluded in Q1 and it is the sixth time this has happened to him so far this season.
In such a demanding team with a powerful car, such performances usually cost you your place. And even more so if your partner records data that reveals yours. Max Verstappen He fell out of Q1 six times in the eight seasons he spent with the team, as did “Checo” in a single year.
The data is huge and justifies the serious doubts you have Red Bull as for letting ‘Checo’ continue in the Austrian team. Christian Horner, team leader, had already warned during the preview of the Las Vegas Grand Prix announcing the holding of a meeting: “Obviously, at the end of the year we will sit and we will analyze all the information we have.”