I am not, he has never been good here, it is always about tight margins and I don’t understand why they did not switch him earlier. I mean, the later the better the chance, but you know he will likely not deliver.
Bingo. You hit the nail on the head. Perez cannot handle the 'all or nothing' pressure of a single allocation lap for this-is-Q1-get-out-of-relegation-zone or a this-is-Q3-get-to-front-row. He is not Max or Lewis (in his prime) or LeClerc. The guy needs to 'feel his way in' for every quali session. Qualifying is his natural weakness.
Yeah, how did that happen? RB18 was reasonable on kerbs IIRC.
But Perez is a professional Grand Prix racing driver?
Here ? He got knocked out in Q1 for the second race in a row. Completely indefensible. Missing Q3 because of X , Y and Z is one thing. Getting punted in Q1 while the VCARBs advance is just mid season replacement worthy. Nevermind 2 year extensions.
Agreed, Russell saying they expect 3-4 tenths from the new tires but didnt improve and Merc saying they will look into why, to him saying they're the favourites, Toto saying they have the pace and Shovlin saying Lewis can get a podium even though hes starting from 7th because his race pace in fp3 was "so strong", interesting to see how close it will be between Merc and MclarenAR3-GP wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024, 03:31My own estimation is that the Mercedes has 2 tenths over Red Bull here. Mercedes did 1.11.7 in Q2. Red Bull was nowhere near this and Verstappen said that time would have been impossible. Mercedes also has a 2 tenths advantage in the FP3 long runs. Toto Wolff also implied that qualifying was closer than they expected (they expected further ahead). Norris said his lap was not clean and was happy to only be hundredths off. He could have qualified ahead. That places Red Bull 3rd on performance.
last year Max was gloating that he can win the constructor alone he should do it then.they just keep perez for the money.