Winning the Formula 1 world champion title four times allows you to be more than an authorized word. Therefore, that the French Alain Prost alerted to the future of the team that dominates the current events of the top category of world motorsport forces us to pay a little attention: foresaw a crisis at Red Bull in the near term starring Mexican Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez.
Even if the Austrian team continues to focus on the Dutch Max Verstappencurrent two-time champion, to fight for the drivers’ championship, Checho Pérez’s good performances so far this season, could make him fight side-by-side with his team-mate for the title.
However, this could generate a crisis in the team, but, above all, a great headache for the director, Christian Horner. That’s why Prost, in an interview with the French newspaper The TeamShe said: “At Red Bull the whole system is based on a driver who is Max Verstappen. This approach has worked well in the past, but now we see the first signs of exhaustion. Checo Pérez has already established himself in the team and has shown that he can win. Now he doesn’t want to step back so as not to lose his position “.
Similarly, the former driver said that the Dutchman, despite being in an excellent moment, must stay alert: “Although Red Bull’s dominance continues, I think the next few weeks will be very important for the current world champion (Verstappen). I am waiting for you.”.
Right now, with three races, everything is very balanced between Checo and Max, even if there is a small difference in favor of the latter. Verstappen has won two races and leads the championship with 69 points, while the Mexican has won once and is behind his teammate with 54 points.
Prost, very hard on the present of Mclaren
The French critic of Mclaren, a team with which he established himself three times in 1985, 1986 and 1989 and which today is far from its best version in F1.
“We are seeing a very strange start to the season. It can be seen that almost all the teams have problems, none of them are doing well and in a certain sense we can call it a crisis. You see that the factory teams or the historic teams have problems, McLaren, for example, goes back every year”hill.
Source: Clarin
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