Sergio Perez has “no chance” of beating Max Verstappen to the 2023 drivers’ title. That is the view of former F1 driver Christian Danner, who said Verstappen’s fight-back drive in Jeddah after a qualifying fault showed how the 25-year-old has developed as a back-to-back champion. Verstappen said he will use the calendar gap created by the cancellation of the Chinese GP to fully recover – while his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez will use it to press forward his own ambitions to beat the sister car to the title. “Of course Perez believes that he can beat Verstappen,” said Danner. Mexican Perez, however, said in Melbourne on Thursday that Red Bull is allowing the duo to fight.

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