Sergio Perez believes the issues Max Verstappen is fighting in his Purple Bull are the identical ones he encountered many races earlier.
The pair certified on the fourth row of the grid for this weekend’s race and had been separated by two locations on the chequered flag. Verstappen has overwhelmed Perez by a lot bigger margins for a lot of the yr, significantly because the seventh spherical of the championship at Imola. Perez completed each race previous to that inside the highest 5, and hasn’t carried out so once more since.
Now Perez suspects Verstappen is encountering the identical issues he first skilled a lot earlier within the season.
“I actually really feel like I’m in the identical boat as I’ve been within the final 10 races,” he advised the official F1 channel. “However now, swiftly, Max has come to related points.
“So there’s just a little little bit of confusion there. Nevertheless it’s clear within the information the place the issue is.”
Purple Bull group principal Christian Horner mentioned after qualifying yesterday that the issues with their automobile persevered even when the tried switching Verstappen again to an older specification on the Dutch Grand Prix.
Perez completed in the present day’s race in eighth place. “I’m fairly dissatisfied,” he admitted afterwards. “I used to be anticipating it to be tough, however not this dangerous. We principally had been gradual and excessive degradation, particularly on the medium [tyre compound].”
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He had a prolonged scrap with George Russell at one stage, and although he was unable to maintain the Mercedes driver behind, Perez was happy Verstappen might out-run him to the flag.
“I compromised just a little bit my race, I feel, to maintain George behind,” he mentioned. “That labored fairly effectively for us as a result of we had been in a position to maintain George behind for just a little bit.
“Ultimately he got here actually near Max so I feel it made a distinction to the group when it comes to factors that we secured in the present day.”
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