He already has a new two-year deal through 2024, but Sergio Perez has not escaped a back-to-back rebuke by Red Bull’s top official Dr Helmut Marko. “He is too far away from Max at the moment,” the 79-year-old said in Hungary. “It’s very unfortunate that Checo was asleep,” Marko told Servus TV. “It was a difficult situation in all the practice sessions too, so we have to sit down together,” Marko told Sky Deutschland. “The summer break hasn’t started yet, but Perez already seems to be on holiday. Marko said Perez, 32, needs to be “in better shape” from the very first practice session in future. And we saw that in certain races last year as well,” he said.

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