🗣 'One of my weaknesses was looking after the tyres. During the winter, I sat down with my engineers to go through it. Now I feel much more like a Red Bull driver.' SChecoPerez explains work on key weakness that's helped him launch F1 title bid:
The Mexican’s victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has moved him to within six points of world championship leaderReflecting on the Baku performance, and especially on the way he controlled the pace at the front - like in Saudi Arabia - Perez has singled out work he did with his engineers over the winter in addressing tyre management problems as triggering a transformation in his fortunes.
While Perez has a reputation as being one of the best drivers at looking after tyres in the past, he says those skills were not easily transferrable to the Red Bull car concept.Motorsport Images “I feel now that I'm much better at it. With the understanding of a Red Bull car, I feel much more like a Red Bull driver.”
“I think, once you are really established in a team, and you understand the concept of a car, you are able to extract the maximum. That only comes with time, and the more time you spend with a team, the better.Perez says that running up against a team-mate like Verstappen has not been easy to deal with, which is why he chose to undertake a deep analysis of his driving over the winter.
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