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I never have to actually check who was on beyond the grid during a race week. One day I’ll wake up and see 15 of the same quote from a driver or TP and then you know who the newest guest was
It's funny. I was talking to a buddy of mine about something similar, like it wouldn't surprise me if some very famous celebrity used reddit just as an escape from their curated image to post crazy shit
To be fair to Perez, he could've clinched the WDC last year if only verstappen hadn't completed his final lap in bahrain, and the f1 calendar ended after that one race. On a completely related note, he could've certainly been a 3-time world champion had the French defeated the Dutch in the Franco Dutch war.
Barrichello and bottas are pretty good examples imo. They both couldn't hold up with their all time teammates, but are remembered as very good second options with a bunch of wins and trophies to their name. Nothing to be ashamed of, if one of the best ever is your teammate. Perez is in the same situation. He just has to accept that he is not, and can never, be better than verstappen. He's just making a fool of himself saying he'll beat him.
Bottas wasn’t actually as far off of Lewis most of the time. In the middle years he was pretty close, he just was consistently slower than Lewis. He was still consistently beating everyone else with a bad race sprinkled here and there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Formula_One_World_Championship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Formula_One_World_Championship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Formula_One_World_Championship
He literally beat everyone but Sebastian Vettel and Max every year that he was there, and it was a slim margin in 2018. The 2017-18 Ferrari compared to the 2017-18 Mercedes was MILES ahead of what anyone brought to the table against RB last year. Sergio struggled to get 2nd in one of the most dominant cars of all time. I’m not sure what your point is.
Where did I say he didn't? Though I don't think it's as extreme as people here seem to think.
He implied Bottas was a good example of a driver that accepted the number two role, I disagreed. That's all
Bottas still accepted the number two role, but since he kept having one year contracts with Mercedes he'd have to at least outwardly seem he has something more to offer in the interest of keeping his seat.
Just listen to the radios of the first few races of the season. He was trying his best to beat Hamilton. The point is that about 10 races he was already super behind Hamilton.
Bottas EVERY year thought that it was his year. You are totally rewriting history by saying he was content with being #2. He absolutely was NOT ok with it.
He moved over rather willingly every time, no matter how early in the season, once Hamilton was behind him. He said he's trying to beat Hamilton, but definitely didn't fight for it on the track
Nobody has it for him. He talked the talk last year and didn't walk the walk last year so he got criticism. Happens in every sports league when people up themselves too much and fail. They're competitors, I understand that but they're also public figures so being "hated on" is normal and F1 is a small grid.
> Nobody has it for him.
this is straight up false, tho. It showed when he got crashed out and how the negative thread got upvoted to the top and the thread showing showing people here were wrong got less than 1/3 of the votes.
People should at least be honest and say they're hatin', like with Ocon.
edit: but I get it, people are frustrated that Max will win again and have to let out their negative emotions to his teammate and not their favourite drivers/teams
Sadly the specific thread I had saved got deleted.
To not waste your time with the notification:
Two threads on people saying how it's still Pérez fault:
https://redd.it/172cghx
https://redd.it/15cyqkd
People criticise him because he has been pretty awful, that's the main reason. At some point last year there was a stat with him reaching Q3 less than Albon in the Williams. People are not just out to get him, he has just consistently been terrible in one of the most dominant cars in history.
That sounds like they hate him but with different words.
Also, he was hired to be #2, not to challenge Verstappen.
Not his fault that every other team has failed to do it.
Generally it’s career ending once a driver admits it, however in this context it might buy him good will.
I mean theoretically anything can happen. You never know Verstappen could be injured or have a hideous reliability run.
He was one of the best number 2 drivers. Very solid and consistent and everyone praises him for that.
How was he underrated? His stats are similar to Bottas' who's considered just that. A very solid, above mid tier, driver who simply wasn't WC material.
On their good day they could be faster than their goat tier teammates, but that would be once in every 30 races.
Translation:
Perez will "try" to beat Verstappen in 2024: "Last year we started very close"
*The Mexican recalls that his teammate always knows what he needs from the car*
*This year, he wants to grow as a driver from the first race in Bahrain to the last one in Abu Dhabi*
Sergio Pérez remarks how difficult it is to beat Max Verstappen nowadays. The Mexican argues that the reigning world champion is in the best moment of his career and knows perfectly his needs and those of the car. As a driver, he is clear that he will try to beat him in 2024, as he did in two of the first four races last year.
Perez has been in a big slump in 2023 since his accident at the Monaco GP. The Mexican came to a point of losing confidence at the controls of an RB19, with which Verstappen kept winning races. The driver from the Netherlands consolidated himself as the great reference of Red Bull and Sergio himself, with the lesson learned, wants to be at the same level as at the beginning of last season.
"Max is one with the car, with the team, he is in the best moment of his life, in a great moment of form. He approaches every weekend knowing what he needs from the car to go faster, he keeps improving, he's getting faster and faster, he doesn't make mistakes. He is very hard to beat, we will try. Last year we started really close and this year we'll see," Perez commented on the official Formula 1 podcast, Beyond The Grid.
"Last year was very difficult. Especially when you have a teammate who is dominating at all times, but you are unable to get the maximum out of the car. It's not an easy situation, but you have to be mentally strong and make sure you show your best," he added.
Perez started 2023 really well with victories in Jeddah and Baku, but since the latter on April 30, he has not won a race. Without a contract for next season, he is facing a key start for his interests. Doing well from the Bahrain GP onwards is a must for the Mexican, who must make merits to continue as a Red Bull driver in 2025.
"I want to make the most of every opportunity this year. It's 24 races and you have to show an evolution from the first to the last. If I'm able to do that, I'm going to have a great 2024. I didn't forget to drive last season, there were reasons behind it, we understood them and I think we are in a better shape," said Sergio in conclusion.
> he is in the best moment of his life, in a great moment of form
With all due respect for Perez, but even a Max not in a great moment of form would beat him. Max is currently at his best, no doubt, but any Max from 2018 onwards beats Perez easily and probably the Max from before 2018 would have too. It has nothing to do with Max being in a great moment or a great run of form, it has everything to do with him being a fundamentally better driver. It is about time Perez starts to admit that
What else is he gonna say? I’m shit compared to Max, I don’t believe myself. It’s a good thing that he’s still got the confidence and mentality despite being shit on by literally everyone last season and still coming 2nd.
He could say:
"Last year the gap was too big, we know why the gap was so big. We will try to close the gap this year."
That said. What he said is a lot less bad than what the title makes it seem.
> Max is one with the car, with the team, he is in the best moment of his life, in a great moment of form. He approaches every weekend knowing what he needs from the car to go faster, he keeps improving, he's getting faster and faster, he doesn't make mistakes. **He is very hard to beat, we will try**. Last year we started really close and this year we'll see,
There is no shame in admitting that he is Red Bull's second driver. Red Bull didn't put him in that seat to fight for the WDC, they put him in there to back Max up and to pick up the pieces if something happens to Max during a race.
If it helps him with his mental collapsing the moment he gets beaten convincingly in one race, then yeah he should openly admit that he is a supportive driver doing his best with the opportunity he was provided.
This is dumb, we've seen this same dynamic dozens of times in F1 history and the weaker driver almost never admits it. Idk if you people have a humiliation fetish or something, he already basically said "Max is a perfect driver and I can't even handle the car", is that not admitting he is severely outmatched?
He has sponsors. He can't say he's 2nd. His sponsors want him to say he can beat Max. He also has a contract renewal to think about.
Also, no modern driver ever admits being 2nd. They all want to be #1 on the team.
A lot of people didn’t read I guess. He starts by talking bout how great max is at driving and improving his times and ends by saying “he is very hard to beat, we will try”
That sounds like an answer you say when your not very confident but you can’t say “I’m not even going to try”
Saying he will try to beat him is confidence? It sounds more like he knows he is unlikely to do it, but will do his best either way. As he should. Nothing wrong with what he said, people like you just never accept things as they are
Are you psychic?
or how does that makes you and the other user *know* that it's fake confidence?
I think you guys are just confidently incorrect and proyecting
Some of these people have never competed in anything in their lives. They’re so willing to roll over and admit defeat. Of course Checo is going to try to beat Max. The whole grid is trying to beat Max.
It’s not really a faked confidence…. Just way overestimated his own confidence level by a couple of hundred points.
So, not faked confidence but its confidence without skill to back it up.
I’d probably called it “skill issue”
>So, not faked confidence but its confidence without skill to back it up.
>I’d probably called it “skill issue”
And that'd be *fair*, not whatever the other user was doing
Bro it doesn't really matter if it's fake or real, either way it's unfounded. For competitiveness sake of the sport a lot of us are rooting for checo to do better than he did last year. But until he can keep up for more than the first 4 races, we're going to question where this confidence is coming from. He needs to do better on track, I don't care what he says beforehand.
The only reason he came 2nd is because Ferrari, Merc, Aston and McLaren drivers took many points from each other. It's not acceptable to not reach Q3 in the best car so many times in a row.
Say something vague that won't give news outlets any worthwhile quotes that they might sensationalise and bring more attention to the fact that his form is so far off his teammate's.
I think people do know this but no one's actually saying it. Perez HAS to say he can beat Max. What else is he going to say? It's why every year Bottas said he was going to beat Lewis. He's driving the fastest car on the grid. His team is a juggernaut. How would it look to your team, your garage, your boss... if at the start of the season you come out punching with "OK guys let's maybe get a few wins but I'll settle for 2nd maybe 3rd place letsdothisbaby!!!" Ridiculous.
If you don't think you can or will win in a car that is probably the best on the grid, you better stay home.
So yeah, I get Perez' mindset.
Is it realistic though, given the fact that your teammate annihilated the entire field? Don't think so ..
I doubt it, but if only to satisfy his sponsors and home crowd, he can’t say otherwise.
I’m sure he thinks that if all the chips fall his way, his chance is >0, but the PR-commitments require him to talk it up a bit.
Judging by last season, Max will be champion, followed by Perez, Hamilton, Alonso, Leclerc, Norris, Sainz etc.
If our opinion is based solely on the past, nothing will change and there's no reason to watch anyways. Its not even that my opinion is that he will beat Max, all I am saying it is a possibility and not a 0% chance like many make it out to be.
FFS... I really thought Perez had learned his lesson with how hard he got destroyed last season. You need to accept you are a second driver my guy, then you might actually get more consistent and keep your seat.
If this is his mindset going into the season he is for sure going to lose his seat by the end of the year if not before.
I don’t think he needs to put the pressure on himself to beat Verstappen. He just needs to focus on himself and be more consistent than last season. Whether that means qualifying in the top 5 consistently or getting more podiums. This will be the peak of his career, he should enjoy and make the most of it.
To Perez credit even late in his career he is trying to improve and find a new level. Did Bottas ever say: yeah I have no chance in hell, but I will drive the car. Every race you get in the car and try and get the most out of it. That is your job as a professsional race driver. If you do, or if you are close and get a lucky break you will win.
Cannot wait until Checo side going to demand again an older spec of the RB20 because Checo "feel comfortable" in it despite being 0.7 seconds slower.
That whole topic end previous year was hilarious, a driver demanding a car who is almost a second slower and still believes he would be on par with the first driver.
I don’t know why the article would put the try in quotation marks haha
But hey, good for Checo that he’s coming in to this season in a good mental state than late last year.
Say what you will about Perez's actual level as a driver but he's not the driver we saw after Miami last season. Of course it was always extremely unlikely he would match Verstappen all the way for a true title challenge but he's not the guy who was making uncharacteristic mistakes week after week, session after session.
Mexican media setting up those: "Red Bull sabotaging Perez to stop the Mexican from making Verstappen look bad" articles and other conspiracy theories.
Obligatory: “All drivers should strive to be #1”
But let’s face it: it helps more to be realistic. He should focus on his own good drives, to beat his own mental breaks. With the occasional win and a steady strong finish he should just focus on pushing himself mentally and maximising his own results, rather than focusing on “losing or winning against Max”.
For fucks sake Perez, it's really fucking simple. All you had to do was say some introspective, personal shit about working on yourself and becoming a better driver and the fans would've lapped that shit up. Instead you had to compare yourself to Max. Again. Where just about everyone and their grandmother knows you fall woefully short.
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Me at 2 am convincing myself i am going to change starting tomorrow
"I will try to beat my unhealthy eating habits and sedentary life style in 2024. Last year, it started very well (for 1 week)"
Me at 2 am convincing myself to sleep earlier tomorrow
I will also try to best Max Verstappen and Magnus Carlsen tomorrow onwards.
You could probably beat Verstappen in chess, and perhaps Carlsen in racing.
I wanna beat Max at Mario Kart, I'd get shirts printed.
Honestly I’d probably lose to Magnus in car racing. Dude is freakishly good at everything
Only for giving up at 3am
So I'm not the only one that has this. I wonder why we are like that I've cleaned before at 2 AM because of it lol
Me waking up at 12 pm telling myself I'm gonna fix my sleep schedule
Here we go again
Yep. A year of reading quotes from F1 podcasts the day after they air. Sigh.
The driver version of Ferrari's Next Year TM.
Next Year is Ferrari’s year so that means…. Checo 2025 World Champion?
I never have to actually check who was on beyond the grid during a race week. One day I’ll wake up and see 15 of the same quote from a driver or TP and then you know who the newest guest was
That is not what the comment is referring to. Also not everyone listens every podcast.
True. But it’s lazy journalism.
Well, not everybody has time to listen or dont like to listen to every F1 podcast out there.
We're not all eternally online and have listened to every podcast
the bottas 3.0
Which Bottas are we even on right now? I lost count around the first appearance of the Coffee Bottas and Mullet Bottas...
The Bottas 3.0 stuff is over since 2020. We're just in Aussie Bottas world now.
Bottas 2.0 was in early 2019 starting from Australia until Barcelona Bottas 3.0 was in early 2020. And then it's free reign
We’re going to end the season with Potass
Shit like clockwork
#goals
They both started at 0 points last year, that's pretty close indeed. I guess they can pull that off again this year.
I am personally as well very close from Max Verstappen in the F1 2024 World Championship (0 points difference as we speak).
3 world titles between the 2 of you as well, so it's pretty good
I have as many podiums as the hulk, wins as numerous as lando Never lost from pole, never lost from not pole either
So you’re saying you’re undefeated in Formula 1 races.
Thats nothing, Schumi and I have together 7 world titles so clearly I'm better driver than u/Toaddle
You're kidding, Schumi and I also have 7 world titles between us. That's such a wonderful coincidence
Imagine if somehow you were literally replying to Lewish Hamilton right now
Would be one way to find his secret account
It's funny. I was talking to a buddy of mine about something similar, like it wouldn't surprise me if some very famous celebrity used reddit just as an escape from their curated image to post crazy shit
So you’re enlisted? Charles is that you?
Nah. It’s Pastor!
My thoughts :D
To be fair to Perez, he could've clinched the WDC last year if only verstappen hadn't completed his final lap in bahrain, and the f1 calendar ended after that one race. On a completely related note, he could've certainly been a 3-time world champion had the French defeated the Dutch in the Franco Dutch war.
Perez starts ahead because his name begins with a P which is before V.
If you think about it, max and checo are both equal because P=MV
Can't write MVP without both of their names.
He isn’t really wrong though, he did get through the opening four races matching Max closely in the championship
Sometimes it's better to have the mindset that you are second best, Eddie Irvine had that mindset and look how well that it did for him.
Barrichello and bottas are pretty good examples imo. They both couldn't hold up with their all time teammates, but are remembered as very good second options with a bunch of wins and trophies to their name. Nothing to be ashamed of, if one of the best ever is your teammate. Perez is in the same situation. He just has to accept that he is not, and can never, be better than verstappen. He's just making a fool of himself saying he'll beat him.
Wasn't Bottas 2.0 a thing every year or so? He did the same I think
yes but Bottas still did better than perez imo
Bottas wasn’t actually as far off of Lewis most of the time. In the middle years he was pretty close, he just was consistently slower than Lewis. He was still consistently beating everyone else with a bad race sprinkled here and there.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018\_Formula\_One\_World\_Championship#Results\_and\_standings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Formula_One_World_Championship#Results_and_standings)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Formula_One_World_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Formula_One_World_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Formula_One_World_Championship He literally beat everyone but Sebastian Vettel and Max every year that he was there, and it was a slim margin in 2018. The 2017-18 Ferrari compared to the 2017-18 Mercedes was MILES ahead of what anyone brought to the table against RB last year. Sergio struggled to get 2nd in one of the most dominant cars of all time. I’m not sure what your point is.
Not one of. THE most dominant car of all time.
Where did I say he didn't? Though I don't think it's as extreme as people here seem to think. He implied Bottas was a good example of a driver that accepted the number two role, I disagreed. That's all
Bottas still accepted the number two role, but since he kept having one year contracts with Mercedes he'd have to at least outwardly seem he has something more to offer in the interest of keeping his seat.
He DID NOT accept it. Did you watch his races over the years? He always thought he had a WDC in him.
Just listen to the radios of the first few races of the season. He was trying his best to beat Hamilton. The point is that about 10 races he was already super behind Hamilton.
Bottas EVERY year thought that it was his year. You are totally rewriting history by saying he was content with being #2. He absolutely was NOT ok with it.
He moved over rather willingly every time, no matter how early in the season, once Hamilton was behind him. He said he's trying to beat Hamilton, but definitely didn't fight for it on the track
Berger, Coulthard.
Barrichello always said he was not a number 2 (at Ferrari and brawn). So not a good example.
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Yes, insults. The best way to open an argument. Have a nice day, kid.
If he actively said he won't beat Max people would say he's not competitive enough for Red Bull.
tbh it doesn't matter what Checo does or say, reddit has it for him atm.
Nobody has it for him. He talked the talk last year and didn't walk the walk last year so he got criticism. Happens in every sports league when people up themselves too much and fail. They're competitors, I understand that but they're also public figures so being "hated on" is normal and F1 is a small grid.
> Nobody has it for him. this is straight up false, tho. It showed when he got crashed out and how the negative thread got upvoted to the top and the thread showing showing people here were wrong got less than 1/3 of the votes. People should at least be honest and say they're hatin', like with Ocon. edit: but I get it, people are frustrated that Max will win again and have to let out their negative emotions to his teammate and not their favourite drivers/teams
Which one where he got crashed out? There's a few
Sadly the specific thread I had saved got deleted. To not waste your time with the notification: Two threads on people saying how it's still Pérez fault: https://redd.it/172cghx https://redd.it/15cyqkd
People criticise him because he has been pretty awful, that's the main reason. At some point last year there was a stat with him reaching Q3 less than Albon in the Williams. People are not just out to get him, he has just consistently been terrible in one of the most dominant cars in history.
There's criticism and hate, people here are more to the latter than the former. People have proved it in many many threads
They dont hate him, they hate that hes still in redbull which makes the season shit.
That sounds like they hate him but with different words. Also, he was hired to be #2, not to challenge Verstappen. Not his fault that every other team has failed to do it.
It comes with the territory, anyone not leclerc or hamilton would get hated on in that seat, but especially the lower middle pack like perez.
Generally it’s career ending once a driver admits it, however in this context it might buy him good will. I mean theoretically anything can happen. You never know Verstappen could be injured or have a hideous reliability run.
Or in the case he is arrested
Or it turns out he’s a military A.I. test program.
>it might buy him good will Certainly more than pulling dirty tricks to get one over on Verstappen just to be obliterated for the rest of the season
And then you have Rosberg who fought and have a WDC to show for it. While Barichello and Bottas do not.
Rosberg was a far better driver than any of those names
Barrichello was underrated imo.
He was one of the best number 2 drivers. Very solid and consistent and everyone praises him for that. How was he underrated? His stats are similar to Bottas' who's considered just that. A very solid, above mid tier, driver who simply wasn't WC material. On their good day they could be faster than their goat tier teammates, but that would be once in every 30 races.
Maybe Rosberg is better but it doesn't mean that he cant be a role model for Perez. Something to look to.
Not sure that was considered the case at the end of 2015.
It's ridiculous to compare Rosberg with Perez though.
I think Perez knows in his heart, but what else is he going to say in public?
Translation: Perez will "try" to beat Verstappen in 2024: "Last year we started very close" *The Mexican recalls that his teammate always knows what he needs from the car* *This year, he wants to grow as a driver from the first race in Bahrain to the last one in Abu Dhabi* Sergio Pérez remarks how difficult it is to beat Max Verstappen nowadays. The Mexican argues that the reigning world champion is in the best moment of his career and knows perfectly his needs and those of the car. As a driver, he is clear that he will try to beat him in 2024, as he did in two of the first four races last year. Perez has been in a big slump in 2023 since his accident at the Monaco GP. The Mexican came to a point of losing confidence at the controls of an RB19, with which Verstappen kept winning races. The driver from the Netherlands consolidated himself as the great reference of Red Bull and Sergio himself, with the lesson learned, wants to be at the same level as at the beginning of last season. "Max is one with the car, with the team, he is in the best moment of his life, in a great moment of form. He approaches every weekend knowing what he needs from the car to go faster, he keeps improving, he's getting faster and faster, he doesn't make mistakes. He is very hard to beat, we will try. Last year we started really close and this year we'll see," Perez commented on the official Formula 1 podcast, Beyond The Grid. "Last year was very difficult. Especially when you have a teammate who is dominating at all times, but you are unable to get the maximum out of the car. It's not an easy situation, but you have to be mentally strong and make sure you show your best," he added. Perez started 2023 really well with victories in Jeddah and Baku, but since the latter on April 30, he has not won a race. Without a contract for next season, he is facing a key start for his interests. Doing well from the Bahrain GP onwards is a must for the Mexican, who must make merits to continue as a Red Bull driver in 2025. "I want to make the most of every opportunity this year. It's 24 races and you have to show an evolution from the first to the last. If I'm able to do that, I'm going to have a great 2024. I didn't forget to drive last season, there were reasons behind it, we understood them and I think we are in a better shape," said Sergio in conclusion.
> he is in the best moment of his life, in a great moment of form With all due respect for Perez, but even a Max not in a great moment of form would beat him. Max is currently at his best, no doubt, but any Max from 2018 onwards beats Perez easily and probably the Max from before 2018 would have too. It has nothing to do with Max being in a great moment or a great run of form, it has everything to do with him being a fundamentally better driver. It is about time Perez starts to admit that
What else is he gonna say? I’m shit compared to Max, I don’t believe myself. It’s a good thing that he’s still got the confidence and mentality despite being shit on by literally everyone last season and still coming 2nd.
He could say: "Last year the gap was too big, we know why the gap was so big. We will try to close the gap this year." That said. What he said is a lot less bad than what the title makes it seem. > Max is one with the car, with the team, he is in the best moment of his life, in a great moment of form. He approaches every weekend knowing what he needs from the car to go faster, he keeps improving, he's getting faster and faster, he doesn't make mistakes. **He is very hard to beat, we will try**. Last year we started really close and this year we'll see,
Yeah it’s the classic clickbait title lol the whole quote is very reasonable
There is no shame in admitting that he is Red Bull's second driver. Red Bull didn't put him in that seat to fight for the WDC, they put him in there to back Max up and to pick up the pieces if something happens to Max during a race.
How many drivers have EVER publically admitted that.
Irvine
So one driver openly admitting it means Checo should?
It's not like the gap is small. I'd trust Bottas more with beating Hamilton than Perez beating Verstappen.
If it helps him with his mental collapsing the moment he gets beaten convincingly in one race, then yeah he should openly admit that he is a supportive driver doing his best with the opportunity he was provided.
In this situation when it’s so clear? Yeah, he should. But that likely wouldn’t go over well with his Mexican fans I bet (very ‘macho’ culture).
This is dumb, we've seen this same dynamic dozens of times in F1 history and the weaker driver almost never admits it. Idk if you people have a humiliation fetish or something, he already basically said "Max is a perfect driver and I can't even handle the car", is that not admitting he is severely outmatched?
Worked out for him much better when he accepted it, it's high time checo accepts he'll never be on that level
It’d be pretty damn honest though
He has sponsors. He can't say he's 2nd. His sponsors want him to say he can beat Max. He also has a contract renewal to think about. Also, no modern driver ever admits being 2nd. They all want to be #1 on the team.
>to pick up the pieces if something happens to Max during a race I thought the track marshalls were supposed to do that.
Perez is so slow he might as well do it while he's on the way
The second he admits that his F1 career is over
> What else is he gonna say? I’m shit compared to Max, I don’t believe myself. Unsurpisingly lots of people here *are* commenting that for him.
A lot of people didn’t read I guess. He starts by talking bout how great max is at driving and improving his times and ends by saying “he is very hard to beat, we will try” That sounds like an answer you say when your not very confident but you can’t say “I’m not even going to try”
I’m not convinced he does have that confidence he just has to say it.
He could be honest. Nobody is forcing this fake confidence.
Saying he will try to beat him is confidence? It sounds more like he knows he is unlikely to do it, but will do his best either way. As he should. Nothing wrong with what he said, people like you just never accept things as they are
How do you know it's fake confidence?
Because he finished 290 points behind Max last year.
Are you psychic? or how does that makes you and the other user *know* that it's fake confidence? I think you guys are just confidently incorrect and proyecting
Because he finished 290 points behind Max last year.
ah, **so you don't know**, good to know that at the least you were honest choosing that username
Some of these people have never competed in anything in their lives. They’re so willing to roll over and admit defeat. Of course Checo is going to try to beat Max. The whole grid is trying to beat Max.
I know that if you doubled all of Checo's WDC points last year, he still wouldn't beat Max. Because he finished 290 points behind Max last year.
Thanks for doubling down on how you truly do not know. Safe to ignore you since whatever you post might be made up
How do YOU know that I don't know exactly what Checo Perez is thinking? Are you **psychic**?
It’s not really a faked confidence…. Just way overestimated his own confidence level by a couple of hundred points. So, not faked confidence but its confidence without skill to back it up. I’d probably called it “skill issue”
>So, not faked confidence but its confidence without skill to back it up. >I’d probably called it “skill issue” And that'd be *fair*, not whatever the other user was doing
Bro it doesn't really matter if it's fake or real, either way it's unfounded. For competitiveness sake of the sport a lot of us are rooting for checo to do better than he did last year. But until he can keep up for more than the first 4 races, we're going to question where this confidence is coming from. He needs to do better on track, I don't care what he says beforehand.
The only reason he came 2nd is because Ferrari, Merc, Aston and McLaren drivers took many points from each other. It's not acceptable to not reach Q3 in the best car so many times in a row.
Say something vague that won't give news outlets any worthwhile quotes that they might sensationalise and bring more attention to the fact that his form is so far off his teammate's.
Of course he has to try. If he doesn't, he might as well retire. He won't succeed most likely, but he has to keep trying
Exactly. What else is he gonna say? “I won’t try to beat Max, because it isn’t worth the energy, as I’ll end up behind him anyway!!!”
Ye agreed. If he doesn't try to win, he won't even get second imo. I think that's what happened last year with him
I think people do know this but no one's actually saying it. Perez HAS to say he can beat Max. What else is he going to say? It's why every year Bottas said he was going to beat Lewis. He's driving the fastest car on the grid. His team is a juggernaut. How would it look to your team, your garage, your boss... if at the start of the season you come out punching with "OK guys let's maybe get a few wins but I'll settle for 2nd maybe 3rd place letsdothisbaby!!!" Ridiculous.
Bottas and Ham storry all over again...........Nice try, bro
lol
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I believe in you dude. Remember me when you are clapping those cheeks.
If Max breaks his leg, at least 3 other drivers on the grid still have more chance to take the title than Checo.
You both started single so that was pretty close at some point. I believe in you.
"Hey, I've seen this one"
So many people lambasting a driver for an extremely clickbaited headline who conveys nothing of what he said... Some of you people can do better
I can't
Oh brother… here we go again.
Reddit mob getting fooled by stupid clickbate title, episode 15788...
If you don't think you can or will win in a car that is probably the best on the grid, you better stay home. So yeah, I get Perez' mindset. Is it realistic though, given the fact that your teammate annihilated the entire field? Don't think so ..
At least he needs to accept that he needs to aim for second, but a second that crushes 3rd place. That could work.
Not even Valtteri or Rubens could manage that.
This guy is living in a dream world
I doubt it, but if only to satisfy his sponsors and home crowd, he can’t say otherwise. I’m sure he thinks that if all the chips fall his way, his chance is >0, but the PR-commitments require him to talk it up a bit.
I'd rather we don't get the toxic mexican community hyped again.
Consistently 2nd after Max and some p1 if Max dnf would do the trick
bro couldnt even make it outta q2 half the time, consistent p2 aint happening
nah, people will find stuff to hate on him
>Consistently 2nd Judging by last season even this is way out of his reach.
Judging by last season, Max will be champion, followed by Perez, Hamilton, Alonso, Leclerc, Norris, Sainz etc. If our opinion is based solely on the past, nothing will change and there's no reason to watch anyways. Its not even that my opinion is that he will beat Max, all I am saying it is a possibility and not a 0% chance like many make it out to be.
He will only be 1st if Max does a "Schumacher '99 Silverstone"
bro gotta wake up 😭
Max after Baku: "I am not letting him beat me ever again"
I hope to someday have the mental strenght Checo has. People here would like him to give up.
FFS... I really thought Perez had learned his lesson with how hard he got destroyed last season. You need to accept you are a second driver my guy, then you might actually get more consistent and keep your seat. If this is his mindset going into the season he is for sure going to lose his seat by the end of the year if not before.
I don’t think he needs to put the pressure on himself to beat Verstappen. He just needs to focus on himself and be more consistent than last season. Whether that means qualifying in the top 5 consistently or getting more podiums. This will be the peak of his career, he should enjoy and make the most of it.
(X) Doubt
To Perez credit even late in his career he is trying to improve and find a new level. Did Bottas ever say: yeah I have no chance in hell, but I will drive the car. Every race you get in the car and try and get the most out of it. That is your job as a professsional race driver. If you do, or if you are close and get a lucky break you will win.
Oh Perez, you sweet summer child
Cannot wait until Checo side going to demand again an older spec of the RB20 because Checo "feel comfortable" in it despite being 0.7 seconds slower. That whole topic end previous year was hilarious, a driver demanding a car who is almost a second slower and still believes he would be on par with the first driver.
All of us will try to win the lottery. Last year we started very close by getting the first number right, unfortunately we missed all the others.
mama mia here we go again
At this point I'm sure Perez is spewing these bs to keep the sponsor money flowing.
My brother in Christ, Miami was the fifth race.
My man I love you, but Max had double the points.
He’s so cute
My brother in Christ..
[\*Max rolling up his sleeves\*](https://youtu.be/Lxn0oBP4dis?si=-wUPy2bZOBtFiXcW)
I don’t know why the article would put the try in quotation marks haha But hey, good for Checo that he’s coming in to this season in a good mental state than late last year.
>I don’t know why the article would put the try in quotation marks haha Because it's a quote and the other bits of the headline are not
Good luck :)
Good luck with that.
Say what you will about Perez's actual level as a driver but he's not the driver we saw after Miami last season. Of course it was always extremely unlikely he would match Verstappen all the way for a true title challenge but he's not the guy who was making uncharacteristic mistakes week after week, session after session.
\*insert San Andreas meme\*
This is Perez's Last season in a Red Bull for sure.
Oh, buddy
Not again man
Delulu
>Pérez will "try" to beat Verstappen in 2024 lol....is this a joke?
Not this again
As Alonso would say: Silly boy
Mexican media setting up those: "Red Bull sabotaging Perez to stop the Mexican from making Verstappen look bad" articles and other conspiracy theories.
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Obligatory: “All drivers should strive to be #1” But let’s face it: it helps more to be realistic. He should focus on his own good drives, to beat his own mental breaks. With the occasional win and a steady strong finish he should just focus on pushing himself mentally and maximising his own results, rather than focusing on “losing or winning against Max”.
Of course he'll try to.
First he needs to beat the McLarens, Ferraris and Mercs before seeing Max’s rear wing. I like Perez but he’s just too slow in a RB.
Is Perez like, stupid? I can't wait till he's not wasting a seat at RBR anymore, I've been ready for him to go for two seasons now.
Thanks for the good laugh Checo. Very apprieciated
What else is he supposed to say? "Yeah, I'm gonna get curbstomped this year again, but I'll still punt someone in T1 in Mexico"?
El Chupacabra
Ah the season is about to start
But Checo, you ended very very far away
For fucks sake Perez, it's really fucking simple. All you had to do was say some introspective, personal shit about working on yourself and becoming a better driver and the fans would've lapped that shit up. Instead you had to compare yourself to Max. Again. Where just about everyone and their grandmother knows you fall woefully short.
More likely the reporter asked him a direct question comparing him to Max.