Sergio Perez’s father has commented upon his son’s relationship with🤪 Max Ver🌠stappen.

The two Red B🌜ull drivers have not always got along smoothly but, this season, have worked on-track like a well-oiled machine.

“They are two tigers in the same cage, is what I have told them,” Antonio Perez toldဣ  in Mexico.

“꧂And if you ask mꦛe, who would you like to see Checo team up with, I would say the best in the world.

“So however it is today, Checo is the second best in the world in Formul🔯a One.”

He also insisted꧃: "The best of Checo Perez hasಌ not yet been seen.”

The relationship between the two Red Bull drivers has mellowe💝d this season, after exploding last year.

Verstappen refus🎶ed team orders at💮 the back end of 2023, after already claiming the championship, which were intended to help Perez.

He then insisted it was not his job to assist his teammate 🦩in finishing second overall in the championship.

Verstappen referred to an incident earlier in the season, in Monaco qualifying, where he wa🤪s hampered by a Perez crash.

Perez has secured three P2 finishes in five F1 gr🦩ands prix this season, each time 🌺with Verstappen winning the race.

That series o﷽f results represents the dream scenario for the dominant Red Bull team.

At last weekend’s Ch🥀inese Grand Prix, Perez ceded P2 to Lando Norris and was forced to settle for P3, but Christian Horner insis🐎ted his No2 driver was unfortunate.

The run of positiv🍸e results that Perez has strung together, in Verstappen’s shadow, is the best possible response to the pressure he is under to keep his Red Bull drive.

Perez’s contract expires this year and the best car in F1 would be coveted by most drivers o🥂n the grid.

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz - the winner of the past two grands prix that Red Bull failed to𝓰 win - is among the options to replace Perez.