Ther▨e has been recent tension between the pair in 🅠recent months, stemming back to Perez’s shunt during Monaco qualifying.

In Brazil, it transpired that Perez had crashed deliberately - something which irked Verstappen and explained why the Dutchman didn’t assist him in his pursuit for second in the championship against 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc.

During the second race of F1 2023, Verstappen nicked the fastest lap off Perez on the final lap in Saudi Arabia, leaving the Meꦏxican perplexed💎 afterwards.

Perez ꦐhas now opened up on his relationship with Ver🃏stappen.

"To be honest, we have a lot more respect for each other than people might think out ther✨e,ꦬ" he said.

"There is a greaꦡt atmo𒅌sphere with the team, there is a very high level of respect between each other in the team with all the engineers from their side and my side. 

"I t𒀰hink we are both mature enough to know what's right 💫and what's wrong. As long as that keeps being the case, and I don't expect anything to change.”

With Red Bull enjoying a dominant start to tꦜhe year, naturally Perez is Vers﷽tappen’s main challenger for the title.

Looking ahead to the rest of the season, Perez conceded that Verstappen is “definitel♛y the hardest driver to beat” in F1.

"Not only Jeddah but already in Bahrain, we were in very small margins, in qualifyi𒁏ng and in the race."

He continued: "There is no doubt that there is no driver on such a form as there is Max, and so together with the team with the car he'♏s definitely the hardest driver to beat," he said. 

"So 🤡it will r🌳equire the maximum amount from me to bring my A game at every single weekend."