Sergio Perez is at the same level at Max Verstappen: Helmut Marko

Sergio Perez is at the same level at Max Verstappen: Helmut Marko

Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen

Red Bull always struggled throughout the previous season looking for a 2nd driver to drive alongside Max Verstappen. Their newest addition, Sergio Perez certainly showed an immense ray of hope and impressed team advisor Helmut Marko in Bahrain Grand Prix. 

Starting from the pitlane after technical issues on the formation lap, Perez salvaged what seemed to be a dead race for him to cross the checkered flag in P5. His race pace was so impressive that Marko believed he was on Verstappen’s level. 

Helmut Marko compares Sergio Perez with Max Verstappen 

Dr Helmut Marko was quoted by Soy Motor saying (translated via google), “The speed in the race is at the same level as Verstappen. When he was in clean air, he set the same times. So far, so good. Unfortunately, it was not like that in qualifying.” 

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While Checo has a habit of displaying amazing performances on Sunday’s, he’ll know he’ll need to step up in qualifying as well. The Mexican got eliminated in Q2 for the race in Bahrain. And that’s a far cry from what Red Bull were hoping for. 

However, Marko believes, Perez is close to figuring out what he needs to improve on during qualifying. 

He said, “The positive thing was that he lost most of the time in a corner, the 1. Already during the preseason tests, it was like that. In sector 3 he was faster than Max on average. The only problem is that you have to get the whole lap. We are convinced that he will be very close to Max also in qualifying.” 

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