After the victory in Monaco, which put him in the fight for the World Cup, Checo Pérez has seen how his title options have almost completely vanished. The Mexican driver believes that his latest developments have not favored him.
A Sergio Perez the victory in the Monaco Grand Prix tasted like glory and it is not for less. Not only for the fact of winning in a historic location, but also for rejoining the dispute for the world title.
From that race, Checo Pérez came out second in the championship with only 15 points behind Max Verstappen. However, four races later, with two second places and two races without points, He is third, 57 points behind the Dutchman..
One of the reasons, apart from some mistakes of his own and some bad luck, is that the Mexican already he doesn’t feel so comfortable with the car like weeks ago. Something that Pérez attributes to the direction taken with the latest developments.
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The goal is to make the car faster
Said statement by Sergio Pérez is not shared by the team and the director of engineering of Red Bull Racing, Paul Monagandenies any deliberate action to benefit Max Verstappen.
“I am not aware that we have taken a deliberate step to make the car less to your liking,” says the British engineer. “It’s not easy to make cars go faster, shall we say”.
“And within a fairly restricted set of technical regulations and freedoms, if you find a way to move a little forward, you’ll often take it if it is within your financial limitations, ”he expands.
As Monaghan explains, all evolution “goes through a process with research tools, full-size realization, and then full-size evaluation. And if it looks like we’ve added a little bit of pace to the car, we usually keep it on the base, which indicates that the car will be faster.
And, if this evolution benefits one driver more than another due to his driving style, it is merely circumstantial.
“Now, it may be that implementing these new features has been easier for Max. Perhaps his set-up has suited him a little better than Checo. But it is not that the car is anchored in its parameters, and that Checo cannot later review the set-up to say that it is back to his liking.
The need to have two competitive drivers
Once the technical explanation has been made, Paul Monaghan focuses on the sporting logic, the ultimate goal of which is to obtain the best possible result for Red Bull Racing.
“It would be foolish of us not to try to give Checo a method to get more out of it. We are in the race for both titles. And we need both cars ahead of the Ferraris and the Mercedes, so we’ll do everything we can to put them both in that situation,” he explains.
“Has anything been implemented that could be preferential to Max? No, not really. It is quite difficult to add rhythm. And if we find a method to do it, we will take it. It should be within our capabilities to find something that is perhaps a little more to your liking. And the balance between the drivers throughout a season will always have ups and downs.
“Max is not one of those who rest on their laurels, neither is Checo, nor are we. But they must remember that they both drive in the same team, and our race is against our rivals, who are very happy to see us behind them»he concludes.
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