“Let’s be honest, RedBull is the least secure seat on the grid.' F1 Perez Formula1
Le Mans winner Richard Bradley believes Sergio Perez needs to “up his game” as a rear gunner to Max Verstappen, in the knowledge that Red Bull offers the “least secure seat on the grid” in Formula 1.
Perez has toiled meanwhile, failing to get into Q3 in each of the last three races and leaving himself with a recovery drive on Sundays to try and muster what he can from the weekends – going from P12 to P6 in Montreal on Sunday. When the time comes that the two-time World Champion is going to need support from his team-mate in race conditions – albeit not quite in the immediate term, given how dominant the RB19 is – Bradley thinks Perez needs to get back to form sooner rather than later, given how unafraid Red Bull have been in the past about changing drivers.
“But the other bigger thing for me, and just to put this stat into perspective, he didn’t make Q3 again.
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