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F1 NEWS: SERGIO PEREZ BREAKS SILENCE ON MAX VERSTAPPEN’S "BAD SIDE" IN NEW INTERVIEW
Now with Cadillac, Sergio Perez reveals the truth about Max Verstappen’s character and their explosive 2022 Brazil fallout.
Sergio Perez has opened up about what it’s really like to race alongside Max Verstappen. According to him, Verstappen isn’t just fast—he’s a whole different animal when he’s behind the wheel. The “bad” sides of Max? Perez says they’re just part of the package.
After getting dropped by Red Bull at the end of 2024 and sitting out a season, Perez is now back in F1 with Cadillac. He knows Verstappen as well as anyone, having spent four years as his teammate at Red Bull. He saw the good and the bad, both on and off the track.
Perez points out that Verstappen can be tough to deal with when things don’t go his way. “Mentally, he’s super strong. He’s got crazy self-belief and so much talent. He’s completely focused on racing, on being the best. He’s a powerhouse in the team and pushes everyone hard,” Perez said on the Cracks Podcast. “He’s a great leader. But honestly, his biggest flaw is his character—when things turn against him, he really struggles.”
He brought up Verstappen’s run-in with George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix as an example. “He blocks; he has that side to him—honestly, if he didn’t, he wouldn’t be Max,” Perez said.
During their time together, Perez sometimes pushed a little too hard—even for a number two driver. And that stirred up some tension. At Red Bull, Verstappen’s team is Verstappen’s team. When Perez dared to challenge him, or worse, beat him, it ruffled feathers.
Things really boiled over in 2022. After an incident in Monaco qualifying, which set up Perez for victory, Verstappen seemed frustrated. Later that year in Brazil, with Perez fighting for second in the championship, Verstappen refused to give up sixth place—even though he’d already secured the title. After the race, when the team questioned him, Verstappen snapped, “I told you already last summer; you guys don’t ask that again to me. Are we clear about that?”
The next season started with Perez believing he could take the fight to Verstappen. But after splitting the first four races, Verstappen shut the door. In Miami, Verstappen started ninth and still won, even though Perez began from pole. That race changed everything. Verstappen went on to win the next nine races in a row and 16 of the last 17. It was sheer domination.
Looking back at the drama in Brazil, Perez gets why fans were upset Verstappen wouldn’t help him. “People complained he didn’t let me pass, that he didn’t return the favour after all I’d done for him,” Perez said. “But honestly, to be world champion, you need that killer instinct—to want to win everything.”
“There’s just something about Max,” Perez continued. “He’s a great guy, but once he’s in the car, he’s different. He transforms. And he was holding onto something he never mentioned. We thought we’d dealt with all our issues that year and talked them out. The whole team thought it was behind us. So when he brought it up in Brazil, we were all surprised.”
FRED VASSEUR SLAMS "ENOUGH WITH THIS STORY" OVER LEWIS HAMILTON’S ENGINEER DRAMA
Lewis Hamilton calls engineer change "detrimental." Get the latest on Carlo Santi, Cedric Michel-Grosjean, and Vasseur's defense.
Lewis Hamilton heads into his second season with Ferrari, but he still doesn’t have a new race engineer lined up. Team boss Fred Vasseur doesn’t seem too worried, though. He brushed off the drama around Hamilton’s situation, saying it’s not really a big deal.
Last year, Hamilton worked alongside Ricardo Adami during his debut season with Ferrari, but they’ve already parted ways ahead of the 2026 season. Even though the new season’s just a couple of weeks away, Ferrari hasn’t named a permanent replacement.
People questioned how well Hamilton and Adami actually communicated last season, especially when Hamilton’s frustration came through on team radio. Now, with Hamilton needing to build a new working relationship, Vasseur insists it’s not creating any bad vibes.
“That’s not exactly what’s happening,” Vasseur told reporters, including those from RacingNews365. “The teamwork between Lewis and everyone on the pit wall is really strong. He’s confident, he’s open, and honestly, I feel good about where things stand. The whole goal is just to keep getting better, day by day. If there’s something to improve, I’ll push for it, but Lewis is in a great mindset.”
During pre-season testing, Hamilton teamed up with Carlo Santi, who used to engineer for Kimi Raikkonen. Meanwhile, rumours are swirling that Ferrari wants to hire Cedric Michel-Grosjean, who just left McLaren, to take over as Hamilton’s race engineer. But Vasseur is clearly tired of the speculation.
When someone brought it up yet again, he cut them off. “Please, enough with this story,” he said. “Look around the paddock. Out of 22 cars, you’ll see six or seven new engineers every year; the same goes for team principals. Honestly, I’m probably the oldest one here, along with Toto Wolff. Teams swap out three or four team principals a year, and it’s not the end of the world.
“There are about 1,500 people in the team now. It’s never just about one race engineer. The person on the pit wall leads a whole group working on the car, so it’s not about individuals. In Formula 1, it’s always about the team. It never comes down to just one person.”
CHARLES LECLERC WARNS F1 OVERTAKING IS "EXTREMELY DIFFICULT" UNDER NEW 2026 REGULATIONS
Charles Leclerc and Esteban Ocon flagged "difficult" passing in 2026 testing. Discover why the 50/50 power split is a strategic nightmare.
Charles Leclerc isn’t sugarcoating it: overtaking looks like a real challenge under the new regulations, and the cost of trying is way higher than before.
Max Verstappen kicked off the complaints about the rules, since now so much depends on how well drivers handle their battery levels. The big change is the 50/50 power split between the internal combustion engine and the battery. That’s forced drivers to rethink everything; they’re saving battery instead of just going flat out for speed.
We’ve just come out of an era where ground effect cars made overtaking tough because of all the dirty air, and honestly, it doesn’t sound like things are getting any easier. No one’s raced for points yet, but after testing in Bahrain, the mood in the paddock isn’t exactly upbeat.
Esteban Ocon was quick to sound the alarm. After following a few cars in testing, he noticed he lost a lot of front grip, maybe even more than last year. He tried the overtake mode but didn’t want to jump to conclusions too soon. Still, his gut feeling? Passing looks tough.
Leclerc agrees. He says he’s on the same page as the other drivers. Right now, overtaking is extremely hard. Maybe with time, as everyone learns how to manage these situations, it’ll get better. But at the moment, every overtake comes at a much steeper battery cost than before. That means even if you pull off a move, getting away from the car behind isn’t as simple as it was last year. It’s just tricky.
When asked about the new rules overall, Leclerc isn’t quite as downbeat as Verstappen, but he admits something’s missing. He’s always loved the aggressive, attacking style of the older F1 cars, and he feels like there’s less of that now. The changes are huge; everything feels completely different from what he’s known in his career. But he does see progress. The cars are getting better, and everyone’s still learning, trying to figure out all the new systems and how to squeeze out the best performance. There’s a lot of work ahead, but things are moving in the right direction.
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