{"id":27788,"date":"2024-12-06T03:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T08:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=27788"},"modified":"2024-12-06T03:49:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T08:49:39","slug":"perez-rb20-did-not-suit-my-driving-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2024\/12\/06\/perez-rb20-did-not-suit-my-driving-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Perez: RB20 did not suit my driving style"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergio Perez<\/a> says that the RB20’s characteristics did not suit his driving style. Perez explains that a lack of confidence meant that he made several mistakes across the season.<\/p>\n

Perez: The RB20 was fast, but difficult to optimise<\/h2>\n

There has been plenty of discussion about Sergio Perez’s 2024 campaign over the last few months.<\/p>\n

His 277 point deficit to teammate Max Verstappen<\/a> is evidence enough of the struggles he’s experienced in 2024.<\/p>\n

Both in qualifying and on race day, the 34-year-old’s pace has been severely lacking.<\/p>\n

With McLaren<\/a> and Ferrari taking considerable leaps in their development, Perez’s performance has costly Red Bull in the standings.<\/p>\n

The Mexican driver is aware of this, explaining that certain factors have limited his output:<\/p>\n

“It’s been a pretty tough year,” <\/em>he told the media in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

“Normally when you have car, it is what it is – you have a bad car and try to maximise what you have.<\/em><\/p>\n

“But here, the car was very fast. It was just super difficult to dial in. It was very easy with my driving style to make a lot of mistakes.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It was very easy to make mistakes, and I ended up doing a lot.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Just not being able to extract 100% has been the toughest part of my season.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Red Bull expected to make a change<\/h4>\n

For a driver with such a respected career before joining Red Bull, the last two years have been immensely tough.<\/p>\n

Although nobody expects Perez to outperform Max Verstappen, the gap between the Red Bull drivers is far too large.<\/p>\n

Even putting aside Perez’s gap to his teammate<\/a>, he currently sits 8th in the standings – last of the drivers in top four teams.<\/p>\n

With the sharp end of the field becoming increasingly competitive, Red Bull need the strongest possible line-up.<\/p>\n

Whilst Perez can be forgiven for not feeling at home in the RB20, his results are still difficult to justify.<\/p>\n

As Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson wait in the wings, his days at Milton Keynes appear numbered.<\/p>\n

The question is whether Red Bull – for the first time since 2018 – choose correctly and sign someone capable of reinforcing Verstappen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sergio Perez says that the RB20’s characteristics did not suit his driving style. Perez explains that a lack of confidence meant that he made several mistakes across the season. Perez: The RB20 was fast, but difficult to optimise There has been plenty of discussion about Sergio Perez’s 2024 campaign over the last few months. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4927,"featured_media":27373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[2220,465],"class_list":["post-27788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1","category-news","tag-2024-formula-1-season","tag-f1-news"],"modified_by":"Jaden Diaz-Ndisang","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27860,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions\/27860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}