Max Verstappen’s anger at Sergio Perez crash revealed by Netflix, but a key talking point was ignored
The fifth series of ‘Drive To Survive’ captured Verstappen storming past Red Bull c🔥onsultant Helmut Marko, furious that Perez caused a red flag in qualifying for last year’s F1 Monaco Grand Prix.
Later🥀 in 2022, Verstappen would cite Monaco as the reason that he was unwilling to follow team orders to assist Perez in an unexpected bust-up, but this tal𓆏king point was ignored by the Netflix show.
F1 champion Verstappen, after p🌌reviously being critical of ‘Drive To Survive’, was partaking in the se𒊎ries for the first time.
He said in an interview with Netflix about Perez’s crash: “It was not a gr🦄eatꦍ moment for the team. There was a red flag when Checo had ‘a moment’.
“It is annoying but what can you do…”
After his fury in the paddock was filmed, team 🎐principal Christian Horner was told: “That will have pissed him off, Verstappen.”
Horner replied: “It definitely upset him, yeah.”
Horner told Net🉐flix about Perez’s crash: “He got greedy and made ꧟a mistake.”
Perez said: “Qualifying didn’t go according to plan. Really sad. It’s a frustrating situation. The team iꦺs very down, things are not great.”
Marko was filmed after Monaco qualifying say⭕ing: “Now we have to hope for rain.”
Horner replied: “Yeah.”
Perez would go on to win the F1 Monaco Grand Prix and would siওgn a new contract with Red Bull afterwards.
Shockingly later in a season where Red Bull would win the const꧒ructors’ championship and steer Verstappen to the drivers’ championship, their No 1 driver blu🐎ntly refused team orders to let Perez pass in Brazil to help him claim second-place in the F1 standings.
However, this moment and the fall-out we🍸re ignored by ‘Drive To Survi𝕴ve’.
The pressure th🌄at Perez was under in 🔴the early stages of 2022 was detailed.
The Mexican had played a key role at the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix by holding up 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton, and allowing Verstappen to make up time.
But Horner said in a Netflix interview at the start of last season: “Checo knows that, in this business, decisions aren’t made with the he꧙ar🐈t. They are made with the head.
“People have short memories. He has one year left on his deal and, if by spring h🎶e isn’t cutting it, then we’l🅠l have to look outside.
“Checo said to me that having Max as a teammate is a head-f*** because you look at the data and he’s doing 🐲it faster. You think 𝄹‘how the hell did he do that!’
“At 32 year✃s of age, he is in the senior years of his ca꧅reer. You start to see cracks.
“Sometim✱es as a te♌am principal you have to make big calls.
“Probably half the grid would like to be in the team. Whether it be 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris could be on the market, even 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda.”
Verstappen said to Netflix: “If you are not performing, you’re out. There are a lot of tale⭕nts out there who deserve a shot.”
Perez admitted his concern: “Red Bull can have any driver, basically, that they want. I am a bit worried. But 𒉰I just think about delivering. I hope Red Bull appreciate it.”
But then came the 🅘F1 Monaco Grand Prix last year, which Perez won to ear💮n a new deal.
This season, the Red Bull duo of Ve🐟rstappen and Perez will enter the season-opening F1 Bahrain Grand Prix looking like the drivers to beat after an ominous showing at preseason testing.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a de𝓰cade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
