Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez have won one race apiece heading into round three of the F1 2023 world championship. The reigning world champion holds a slender one-point lead after pinching the fastest lap bonus point in jeddah.
Formula One champion Max Verstappen is recovering from a stomach bug that affected his race in Saudi Arabia. The Dutchman finished runner-up behind Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez at Jeddah despite feeling ropey through the race weekend. Piastri struggled in the opening round at Bahrain, his first race in more than 12 months after sitting out 2022 as a reserve driver for Alpine.
Max Verstappen admits he still not fully over a stomach bug that hit him hard in Saudi Arabia. The 25-year-old delayed his arrival in Jeddah two weeks ago due to illness and missed media day. He battled through the discomfort to finish second behind team-mate Sergio Perez.
Sergio Perez was left smarting after Max Verstappen denied him a fastest lap point at the jeddah circuit. The reigning world champion leads the standings by 44 points to Perez's 43. He believes in his RB19 he has the right car to fight for the championship.
The motorhome was originally built in Austria and cost the Force India team €7.8 million. It is fully equipped with a kitchen, an open-top bar, bathrooms with showers and toilets, sleeping areas, a reception space and an office. The nameplates for Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon are still displayed on their respective driver rooms.
Valtteri Bottas advises Sergio Perez not to be ambitious against his teammate Max Verstappen. The duo have had their share of heated moments during races for victories. Bottatas calls the situation a 'mixed pleasure' and calls it a mixed pleasure.
Despite not being at full fitness, Verstappen dominated the weekend up until Q2. He suffered a driveshaft failure, leaving him 15th on the grid for the race.
The reigning champion was forced to complete a stunning recovery drive in Saudi Arabia. He started from 15th in jeddah after a driveshaft problem during qualifying forced him to retire from the session during Q2. But he was able to recover to finish second to team-mate Sergio Perez.
Perez claimed his fifth career victory and his fourth since joining red bull in 2021. The 76-year-old says he has the speed to take compete against team-mate Max Verstappen for the 2023 title. Perez is the second driver in history to leap from zero to three world championships in successive seasons.
Aston Martin have jumped from being the P7 finisher in last season’s Constructors’ Championship to now having the second-fastest race car behind Red Bull. Fernando Alonso has joined the Red Bull duo of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez on the first two podiums of the season in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Red bull's Sergio Perez wants a review into the communications given to himself and Max Verstappen in the closing stages of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. The pair spent the second half of the race trading fastest times as they pulled away from the rest of the field. Perez had questioned the radio instruction to maintain his laptime.
Perez scored a dominant win at the saudi arabia grand prix. The victory narrows the gap at the top of the drivers' world championship to just one point. A last-gasp fastest lap effort from team-mate Max Verstappen.
Sergio Perez crossed the line first, but it was not enough to take over the lead in the world championship. Perez was expecting more dominant but the safety car made it a lot harder for me. In the last 25 laps, the two Red Bull drivers were evenly matched.
Sergio Perez won the 2023 world drivers' championship in jeddah. He finished in a dominant position in the sport despite starting all the way back in P15. But he denied 100th podium due to penalty after the race.
It is the second time in two years that red bull driver Sergio Perez has clinched pole position after teammate Max Verstappen encountered a driveshaft failure in Q2. The 25-year-old missed Thursday’s Media day ahead of the race in Saudi Arabia with a stomach bug.
Ocon was 0.813 seconds adrift of polesitter Sergio Perez. Team-mate Pierre Gasly was 0.3S slower to clock ninth place. He said he had broken the car with the impacts.
Gasly and Albon endured disappointing respective spells alongside Max Verstappen. The frenchman was dropped in the middle of 2019, while Albon was replaced at the end of 2020 for Sergio Perez. Perez's wealth of experience has given him a clear advantage over Gasly.
The simulators honour the team’s 2022 championship-winning F1 car, the RB18. They will be manufactured using the same process as F1 race cars. Each sim comes with the option of either Max Verstappen or Sergio Perez’s livery.
Red bull have won 10 of the last 12 races but reliability, crashes and errors can never be ruled out. Former world champion max Verstappen finished 11.987 seconds ahead of mate Sergio Perez and 38.6 seconds clear of aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.
Max Verstappen led all-Red Bull front row lock-out in qualifying at the Sakhir circuit. The reigning world champion laid down a 1:29.708 in Q3 to beat his team-mate Sergio Perez by a tenth of a second. He believes his RB19's race-pace will be “better” than the car in qualifying trim.
A Mercedes error cost lewis Hamilton vital data in final practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix. He ended the session fourth fastest behind Fernando Alonso, Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. This was after he was sent out to join the track late to complete a practice start from the grid.
Former manager of Sergio Perez says having a teammate like Max Verstappen can be intimidating. The 2022 season was a big step forward for the Mexican driver.
Italian driver had a good 2022 season with two race wins at the Monaco and Singapore Grand Prix. But he was out-shined by teammate Max Verstappen who won the driver's championship with Perez coming in third. The former manager said he needs to find some significant improvement from his performance in 2022.
The two drivers had a bit of a moment during the 2023 F1 Brazilian GP when Max Verstappen declined team orders from Red Bull. The pair came in at P1 and P18! Autosport has released their Top 50 Drivers of 2022 list.
F1 commentator says he doesn't know what happened, especially for everything he's done for him. He says if he has 2 championships it's thanks to me. The infamous event could potentially butcher red bull's chances on race weekends.
Max Verstappen's comments may leave a bad taste in the mouth of teammate Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas. The 25-year-old won his second successive world title this year. He said: "Every year he starts fresh and you accept your role"
The FIA have confirmed the starting times for all 23 races for the 2023 Formula 1 World Championship. The official names of the drivers, the teams and their sporting and company names have also been released. Fernando Alonso has joined Sergio Perez in paying homage to his mother by adding a second surname to the FIA list.
Sergio Perez sends gift to all 1,400 Red Bull employees a bottle of Tequila. The Mexican driver finished second in the drivers' standings behind teammate Max Verstappen. The 32-year-old also gave the staff a message of appreciation to thank them for their hard work.
Sergio Perez ended the year three points behind Charles Leclerc in the championship. The Mexican was handed a new two-year contract with Red Bull until the end of the 2024 season. Perez says he bounced back from early reliability struggles and a rough patch mid-year. Perez: "I can just feel that things are just getting better"
Lewis Hamilton won the 'FIA Action of the Year' award for one of the best and most clever overtakes during the 2022 F1 season. The seven-time world champion overtook Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez in one go. The move gave Hamilton a podium finish as he went directly from being P4 to P2, even though he ultimately finished the race in P3.
Sergio Perez was the most-mentioned driver on social media between March 20th and November 10th. Perez’s race victory at the Singapore Grand Prix was responsible for the highest number of social media mentions this season. The news comes after a difficult season for Perez who has been unable to match Verstappen's success.
Lewis Hamilton feels that the drama surrounding F1 is like a Kardashian show, referring to the long-running American reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians. The Mercedes driver also took a slight dig at Max Verstappen's mother Sophia Kumpen. The dig stems from rumors that she reportedly joked about Sergio Perez cheating on his wife during the 2022 F1 Monaco GP post-race celebrations.
Alexander Albon made his F1 debut in 2019 with Toro Rosso (now AlphaTauri) Albon was promoted to Red Bull Racing after Pierre Gasly's disappointing results. After a difficult 2020 season, the Thai driver had to make way for Sergio Perez. The 26-year-old was able to return to the sport in 2022 with Williams.
Sergio Perez says he has what it takes to become world champion in 2022. The Mexican finished just behind Charles Leclerc in the championship. Perez was 150 points behind teammate Max Verstappen at the end of the season. The Red Bull driver says he needs to do better next year to achieve that goal.
Christian Horner says Daniel Ricciardo's new Red Bull contract is specific for a specific reason. Daniel rejoined Red Bull as a reserve driver after leaving in 2018. The Australian rejoined the team on a two-year deal with Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen. Perez signed a new deal at the Monaco Grand Prix having performed well for the team.
Damon Hill wouldn’t be surprised if Daniel Ricciardo replaces Sergio Perez at Red Bull next season. The 1996 World Champion says it could be 'quite an interesting one' with the problems between Max Verstappen and Perez. Hill says Ricciard could be in prime position if there is some sort of fall out.
Christian Horner believes Sergio Perez could have been ahead of Charles Leclerc at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Red Bull principal believes Perez 'maybe' could have done it if it wasn't for Lewis Hamilton. Horner defended the team's decision to put Perez on a two-stop strategy.
Lewis Hamilton endured the worst F1 season of his career in 2022. Villeneuve tipped Hamilton for a great F1 2023. The seven-time champion was also beaten in the drivers' standings by new teammate George Russell. The Canadian believes Sergio Perez will need a ‘strong’ 2023 campaign.
Christian Horner believes no driver would have been able to match Max Verstappen in the same equipment in 2022. Sergio Perez finished third in the World Championship after a battle with Charles Leclerc for the runner-up position in the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Mexican ended the campaign with 305 points, while Verstapen racked up 454 points, as well as breaking the record for most wins in a season.
Sergio Perez lost out on Charles Leclerc to Max Verstappen at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver had gone into the race on level points with the French driver. Helmut Marko believes that a key mistake cost Perez time in the race. The Mexican ended up in P2, while the Red Bull failed to clinch a 1-2 in the Drivers' Championship.
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez seems to be regretting his comments on Max Verstappen after the 2022 F1 Brazilian Grand Prix. Perez said that the entire event is now in the past for the Red Bull team and they are moving ahead. The Mexican driver thinks that the situation could have been handled differently. He said that Formula 1 is a very emotional sport and whatever he said was in the heat of the moment.
Max Verstappen took a record-breaking 15th race win at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Red Bull finished second in the championship after Charles Leclerc finished in third. Sergio Perez finished the race behind the Ferrari driver in third place. This was the first season of Lewis Hamilton's F1 career where he failed to win a single race.
Max Verstappen wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to round out the Formula 1 season. Charles Leclerc finishes P2 in the championship ahead of Sergio Perez. Lewis Hamilton's run of a win in every season ended with a late hydraulic failure. Sebastian Vettel finishes 10th in his final race in Abu Dhabi.
Sergio Perez's father appears to have added fuel to the fire in the Perez-Verstappen situation by stating that the Mexican wins races that the Dutchman cannot. The Mexican's father said that his son did not need anything from anyone. Perez had also tried to quash rumors of him intentionally crashing in Monaco qualifying.
The final qualifying session of the season in Abu Dhabi is set to be a battle between Mercedes and Red Bull. Sergio Perez topped the timing sheets in practice, closely followed by Verstappen and the Mercedes duo in third and fourth. McLaren's Lando Norris managed a better lap time than both Ferrari and McLaren.
Red Bull secured a 1-2 in the 2022 F1 Abu Dhabi GP FP3 heading into qualifying. Sergio Perez led the march with Max Verstappen right behind him. Mercedes appears to be probably a tenth down on Red Bull. McLaren vs Alpine for P4 will be an intense battle. Sebastian Vettel might surprise a few in qualifying.
Carlos Sainz has suggested deliberate crashes in F1 happen more frequently than we may realise. Max Verstappen refused to move over to let Sergio Perez by in the final lap of the Brazil Grand Prix last weekend. The pair were in sixth and seventh respectively, and needed the points in his fight against Charles Leclerc for second in the Drivers' Championship.
Carlos Sainz was left with a damaged car after Sergio Perez crashed in Monaco qualifying. Reports suggest that Max Verstappen's frustration with Sergio Perez in Brazil was a result of the Mexican’s crash in Brazil. The Red Bull driver believes Perez crashed deliberately in Monaco to bring out a red flag in qualifying.
Red Bull admits it made some mistakes in dealing with team orders controversy at Brazilian GP. Red Bull says it accepted Max Verstappen's reasons for ignoring team orders at Interlagos. Verstapen was told to give up position on final lap to boost teammate Sergio Perez's points tally. Dutch media reported it was linked to a belief that Perez crashed on purpose in qualifying to guarantee he started ahead of him.
Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez have outscored Hamilton in a season. Seven-time champion Hamilton is 25 points ahead of his Mercedes team-mate George Russell. Russell could become the 11th F1 teammate to out-score Hamilton in the standings if he fails to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Mercedes tweet video of Sergio Perez racing Lewis Hamilton and Lewis Hamilton. Mercedes tweet it as 'real racing' at Interlagos, labelling it "real racing" Hamilton and Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen collided in the early stages of the race in Brazil. The two drivers blamed each other for the incident in Sao Paulo.
Max Verstappen refused to give back a place at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez. The Dutch driver backed out after Perez let him overtake on the understanding that the position would be returned if the Dutch driver could not pass Fernando Alonso for fifth place. Perez needs every point to beat Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to overall runner-up.
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez slammed teammate Max Verstappen for refusing to let Sergio Perez past him in Sao Paolo Grand Prix. Verstattappen refused to attack Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc in a bid to overtake the Ferrari driver. Perez sarcastically thanked the Red Bull team, saying this shows who he really is.
Max Verstappen refused to reveal his reasons for disobeying team orders at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Red Bull's Sergio Perez was stunned by his team-mate’s surly behaviour. Perez said he had “showed who he really is”
Sergio Perez says Max Verstappen showed who he really is after he refused a Red Bull team order in Brazil. Red Bull guided Perez through by Red Bull to attack Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc. Perez finished seventh in the Drivers' Championship after finishing P2 in the standings.
Max Verstappen decided not to pass Sergio Perez at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix, despite a team order from Red Bull Racing. People on social media are also lashing out at the Dutchman. Red Bull teammate Christian Horner was angry at the decision to not pass Perez.
Qualifying hour takes place on the Friday of the brazilian grand prix weekend due to the Sprint race on Saturday. Sergio Perez finished only 0.004s faster than Charles Leclerc.
Red Bull boss confirms talks have taken place with Lando Norris in the past. The British driver has been linked with a move away from McLaren. Red Bull have signed Max Verstappen until 2028, while Sergio Perez will remain with the team until 2024 at least. Click here for more F1 news.
Max Verstappen sets F1 record for most wins in a season with 14th victory of the season. Red Bull driver has two races left to break Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel's record. Sergio Perez finished third on his home track for the second consecutive year.
Carlos Sainz set the quickest time at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on a 1:20.707 ahead of teammate Charles Leclerc and red bull's Sergio Perez. The top three were separated by just 0.120s, with max Verstappen the early pacesetter.
