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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has finally acknowledged that the performance gap between Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen is untenable going into 2025. The Austrian team is one of the few teams on the grid right now that are still following the somewhat old-school but conventional approach of having a number one and number two driver within the team.
In this structure, there is one lead driver who gets priority on everything, while the second driver is the supporting act. At Red Bull, this role has been divided between Versatppen and Perez, with the Dutch driver being the team leader while the latter is the one who supports him.
The partnership has not worked as well as it would have been hoped because Perez is just too far behind Verstappen in terms of performance. This is something that has stood out in the overall points as well as generic statistics as well. While Red Bull has continued to persist with this kind of structure in the past, it does appear that the team is now concerned with what is at hand, especially as rivals have a considerably better lineup.
