Pierre Gasly believes that “something is missing” from Sergio Pérez as the risk of suffering the blow from Red Bull looms, a position in which Gasly has already found himself.
Perez has some wiggle room lately that he didn’t give to Gasly, who was ousted from Red Bull after just 12 races with the team. But, although hesitant to comment on what it means to be a Red Bull driver under pressure, Gasly warned that “something is happening”. “lack” for Pérez at this time.
Gasly was promoted from Toro Rosso to Red Bull for the 2019 season, but was soon discovered at Faenza after 12 races with the team.
Although it was considered a strong but fair decision at the time, Gasly’s form appears better given Perez’s contact situation with the Frenchman, who only managed to score trouble on three occasions.
But although the 28-year-old has now moved on to pastures new at Alpine, he was hesitant to comment too much on Perez’s existing problems, but recommended it very differently to the situation he found himself in.
“First of all, I think my scenario is very different from Checo’s,” he told the media, adding PlanetF1. com, at Silverstone. “But I think he’s under a lot of pressure right now.
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“I don’t know what to say to be fair. He’s a smart driver, everyone knows that, but he doesn’t seem to get his way, neither himself nor coming from the team. I don’t know and I can’t comment on this.
Gasly then asked how things can be temporarily replaced by a motive force and said it can be tricky to determine a speed if you’re not comfortable in the car.
“Ultimately, his current moment is that he doesn’t feel the car,” Gasly continued.
“Whenever you feel strong in a car, you have, for one reason or another, a weak weekend. The next weekend you come back, you feel smart, you do smart laps and you don’t even think about it. “
“But he just doesn’t seem to get the functionality out of it, whether it’s him or the team, I don’t know.
“But obviously there’s a fault between the two. “
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