Dec.22 (GMM) The important thing to Sergio Perez upping his recreation and hanging onto his Crimson Bull seat past 2024 is confidence.
That’s the view of Valtteri Bottas, who was at Mercedes for 5 years all through his then teammate Lewis Hamilton’s championship-winning reign.
Bottas, although, says he by no means stopped believing in himself.
“As earlier than, I consider that on a very good day I can beat anybody,” stated the Finn, who after dropping his Mercedes seat switched to Sauber.
In keeping with Crimson Bull boss Christian Horner, the ball is in Mexican Perez’s courtroom when it comes to him proving subsequent 12 months that he deserves to stay Max Verstappen’s teammate.
“It’s Checo’s to lose,” he stated.
“He’s our 2024 driver and if he does an important job subsequent 12 months there isn’t a purpose we wouldn’t lengthen him into 2025, however it will likely be purely primarily based on what he achieves over the massive a part of the season.
“Now we have choices within the wings,” Horner added, referring to Daniel Ricciardo however maybe additionally Yuki Tsunoda. “There may be additionally numerous curiosity from outdoors the workforce as nicely, so so long as you’re aggressive it places you in a luxurious place to simply take your time.”
Bottas, who’s at present holidaying in South Australia, thinks the lacking ingredient for Perez is confidence.
“Precisely,” he answered when requested by motorsport-magazin.com if each driver on the Method 1 grid ought to consider they will beat Verstappen.
“You may’t go right into a race weekend pondering it’s not possible to win. Then you definately’ve already misplaced. It is a sport, and it is best to all the time have faith in your individual skills.
“In the event you don’t have that confidence, you find yourself in a posh downward spiral. I might say that once I take a look at what Checo goes via, he undoubtedly lacks confidence. And you’ll see it within the outcomes.”
