winning a race with a destroyed redbull? how then? He couldn't in a record breaking dominant one

It won't be Sainz

Definitely seemed like that last year. Verstappen and the RB19 were without a doubt a fantastic match. Sometimes there's just a (near) perfect match between the car and the driver, but it rarely lasts multiple years. Even in 2022 when the Red Bull was just a tiny bit less dominant, Pérez was much closer quite a few times.

Anyway, hopefully F1 won't have to depend on Pérez to see some competition in 2024.

Sorry, misread your comment! I thought you were saying that there were 1 or 2 drivers at Checo’s level.

In that case, I would argue that there are no other drivers at Verstappen’s level currently. He’s got an extra 1% over everyone.

1 or 2?

I’m thinking at least 5 or more!

The problem last season seemed to be that he was trying to win. He shouldn't do that. He should try to finish 2nd, something for which he had the car at every race; yet he was off the podium more often than he was on it. A very bad result. Like in many sports, it's possible to do worse when you're trying harder. Pérez seems an obvious example of this phenomenon.

And the previous seasons. Two years ahead of Ocon, three out of four years ahead of Hulkenberg. Only year at McLaren outqualified Button.

Definitively not at VER, HAM or ALO level, but not the wasted driver you all talk about. He is inconsistent but remember that during most of the years of MERC dominance, PER was the only driver outside MERC, FER, and RB to pitch podium places. There must be something good out of him …

Checo went on to say:

“No matter how good the car is this year, I promise to never miss an opportunity to underperform, crash or generally just disappoint the hell out of everyone at Red Bull.”

It's going to be Albon, apparently. Unofficial news, of course

This is true, that season ending in "force india" for perez was impressive, but the rest of the season wasn't at the same level.

the same old talk but i bet he didn't do anything to fix what went wrong last year and will be making the same mistakes again and again. Perez is a limited and unreliable driver. He have been driving top cars for the last 4 seasons and even in the pink team season that was already showing with him clearly being much more competitive than Stroll but failing to put everything together until the later stages of the season.

I only hope Red Bull get destroyed this year so Perez actually has a shot at winning a race.