With three Grands Prix to go in 2020, it is still not clear who will ride next year next to Max Verstappen at Red Bull. Alexander Albon is under incredible pressure and Sergio Perez is on the list to replace him. The team would benefit from him much more.
Albon doesn’t really know how to do good business with the Austrian team. Week after week, it is said that he is improving, but apart from his podium at Mugello, he has not done much this year. However, Red Bull has not yet taken the plunge, but in the meantime there are two drivers in the queue to replace the British Thai. Perez is one of them and he would join, according to Mark Hughes, a Formula 1 expert Sky Sports, therefore the best option as a teammate of Verstappen.
“Red Bull has it [Albon] cannot use it to support the strategy of Verstappen by putting pressure on a competitor or by defending himself against a possible threat, “Hughes wrote in his column. This was the goal in advance that a second driver would during the race, allowing the team to achieve maximum points. In that regard, Albon was nowhere to be seen during the races, as he was often stuck in midfield. Due to his relatively poor qualifications, he always had to start further back than Verstappen, which did not help his speed during the GP.
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Perez would suit Red Bull much better in that regard, according to Hughes. Perez is fast and pugnacious enough on the track that he can be used as part of the whole team’s strategy in a way that has simply not been possible with Albon this year. He is not the fastest man in qualifying in terms of statistics. , but he can be trusted to place the car in a representative location, “concludes the Sky Sports analyst. It would therefore be possible with the Mexican to position the Red Bull cars on the second row as standard.
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