Everything indicates that Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez They are going to fight for the Formula 1 world championship alone. Red Bull, to date, has had no rival: it has claimed all five victories (three for Max and two for Checo).
This time the Mexican is competing face to face with his partner and he is being as fast as he is. That is why his father, Antonio Pérez, has compared this rivalry with the one that Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna lived at McLaren. Big words.
This has been said in ‘Motorsport’: “They are two tigers, gram for gram, in the same cage… They both think the same, eat the same breakfast. You see them both trying to take the fastest lap from each other.”
He points out that Checo is now as fast as his partner: “Maybe Max has an advantage, but Sergio can now go at his own pace. I think there are only a few thousandths between them in favor of Max, but on difficult tracks I see them very even.”
The Pérez, like the Verstappen, do not want to lose. And he assures Antonio that being second is “being the first of the losers”: “Every morning he knows that he is in a team that is in first place, and that second place is the first loser…”.
“Today I see a different Checo Pérez, the way he talks, walks and looks is different. I notice him as a father when I talk to him and he says ‘no, no, no boss, remember that I am number 1’ and I I tell him ‘no, no, don’t be confused'”, he has sentenced.
The difference is minimal after five races: 14 points in favor of the Dutchman. And the next stop is Monaco after the cancellation of Imola by floods. A new battle between the two Red Bull drivers?
