Sergio Perez says he is being pushed to a new level of performance by the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen now he gets to race the pair in equal machinery. Red Bull decided to break from its traditional driver model of promoting one of its junior drivers and instead signed Perez to replace Alex Albon in order to try and improve its chances against Mercedes this year. Perez won in Baku and backed that up with a podium in France, but he was beaten to third place by Valtteri Bottas in the Styrian Grand Prix on Sunday and well off the pace of Verstappen and Hamilton, and he says it shows the standard or performance he must aspire to. “It’s obviously a great boost of motivation...
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