Sergio Perez has called out Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen, after the Dutchman was asked to give a position back to the Mexican at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix, but refused to do so.
Perez was sixth with just a handful of laps remaining, but Verstappen, on fresher tyres, was waved past his team-mate in order for him to attack Fernando Alonso for fifth place. However the two-time Formula 1 world champion was unable to do so, and was told to then give the position back to Perez as agreed beforehand.
Verstappen crossed the line in sixth, with Perez seventh, after refusing the team’s order to swap positions back.
“Max, if we don’t pass Fernando on the exit of 12, can we let Checo through, please. Let Checo back through,” was the radio message from his engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase.
“Let Checo through. Max, let Checo through please,” Lambiase repeated before questioning his driver: “Max, what happened?”
“I told you already last time guys, don’t ask that again of me, okay. Are we clear about that? I gave my reasons and I stand by it,” came Verstappen’s angry response.
Perez was left fuming with his team-mate, forcing team principal Christian Horner to step in on team radio: “Thank you for that guys. Thank you,” said Perez.
“I’m sorry about that, Checo,” replied Horner. “We’ll debrief everything afterwards.”
“Yeah. It shows who he really is,” came Perez’s scathing remark.
His race engineer, Hugh Bird, then added: “Don’t know what to say, Checo.”
Perez is fighting for the runner up position in the championship, but has now dropped to third behind Charles Leclerc – although tied on points – as a result of Verstappen failing to give the place up.
Horrified at Verstappen comments on team radio.
Last year Perez was a legend and today M.V. Could
not give Perez a single point.
Horner now has a fractured camp and M.V. has done Red Bull
no favours.
He is not bigger than the team.Too little to late M.V.Shame on you
He needs Perez and he needs to be firmly reminded of that FACT.
Perez is in the most dominant car on the grid and needs his number 1 teammate to help him secure it with two races to go? That sounds like a Perez problem to me, not a team problem, and damn sure not a Verstappen problem.
I’ll be the first to say I don’t even like Verstappen, but Perez is a low IQ bum who isn’t fit to drive a Haas. Red Bull need to find a real number 2 driver, one who can step up and win races (or at the very least get podiums) when number 1 runs into issues, which in this case was Hamilton running into Verstappen, and somehow being penalized for it. The fact that Perez didn’t secure second place in the championship several races ago just goes to show how lackluster he is.
We all know max is a selfish person. He’s the way vettle was in his finger pointing days. Hopefully he matures the way Seb did because the current max is pretty annoying.
If you mean you hope Max lowers his IQ by about 50 solid points and cucks out to every trendy Soros-funded social movement, then no thank you; I’d rather see “selfish” Max stay. Perhaps Perez should have worked a little harder this year and especially today instead of begging for his teammate to cheat. Perez was a solid 4 seconds behind Max anyway, probably would have resulted in dangerously slow driving if he had attempted to let him go by.
Get a grip marcel. I only spoke about his maturity, nothing more. Your insinuations and tangent speaks volumes about yours.