has revealed Crimson Bull funded a dear remedy session to assist him again when he raced for the staff in Method 1.
Perez joined Crimson Bull in 2021 after each and struggled within the outfit’s second automobile, however he took only one victory that yr as team-mate gained 10 grands prix on his option to a maiden world title.
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“As quickly as I arrived at Crimson Bull, within the first races, once I didn’t ship outcomes, [they told me] ‘What you want is a psychologist, you need to see a psychologist’,” Perez advised the Cracks podcast. So the Mexican did.
“On prime of that you’ve your complete staff towards you. Publicly it was very tough”
Sergio Perez
“In the future I arrive on the Crimson Bull manufacturing unit they usually inform me, ‘Hey, there’s a invoice for you’ – £6,000 from the psychologist. I inform them, ‘Ah, are you able to ship it to Helmut [Marko, Red Bull advisor]? He’ll pay it’. It was £6,000 for one name,” he laughed.
“Then Helmut tells me, ‘Hey, how did it go?’. I inform him, ‘Excellent, with this session we’re all set’. And that’s how we went on for 3 years, proper? Already cured by the psychologist, the outcomes began to come back. Effectively, the decision labored.”
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Sergio Perez, Crimson Bull Racing, with Helmut Marko, Marketing consultant, Crimson Bull Racing
Sergio Perez, Crimson Bull Racing, with Helmut Marko, Marketing consultant, Crimson Bull Racing
Albeit a constant podium finisher and occasional race winner, Perez saved struggling relative to Verstappen and his efficiency collapsed in 2024 on the wheel of a tough RB20, which led to his exit from the squad.
“Within the final years, it was a lot that I stated, ‘Effectively, perhaps I do need assistance, proper? The outcomes aren’t coming’.
“I seemed for it in all places, however deep down I knew completely properly that when you’ve a automobile the place you’re eager about what’s going to occur, what it is going to do, during which nook you’re going to crash, you may’t go quick. And on prime of that you’ve your complete staff towards you. Publicly it was very tough. I believe solely somebody very mentally sturdy can stand up to one thing like that.”
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