Sergio Perez Insists ‘Even Lewis Hamilton Cant’ Match Max Verstappen’s Speed in a Red Bull

Max Verstappen has suffered from a rollercoaster of a year in 2025. Despite the woeful slump, Verstappen has kept up with positive race results and has remained a dominating force on track. Red Bull’s challenger has remained difficult to excel in as the second driver in the team has continued to suffer from a difficult time.

Now, amid the team’s problematic state, the team’s most recent winning second driver, Sergio Perez, has talked about how even Lewis Hamilton couldn’t match the 27-year-old at Milton Keynes.

Sergio Perez was one of the many drivers who couldn’t match up to the standards that Max Verstappen had set at Red Bull. Although the Mexican driver was one of the finest second drivers to the reigning world champion, he was still snubbed brutally from the team amid failing results. Since then, no other second driver has been able to perform as well as Perez did back in the day.

Now, Red Bull’s challenger is known to be highly unstable and set up more for Max Verstappen. While there is some truth in this, the Dutchman is simply unmatched in terms of performing well in any car.

As such, Sergio Perez reckoned that being next to Verstappen was difficult as is, more so when they were paired up at Milton Keynes. Amongst many things to say, Perez raised surety on the fact that teaming up with the 27-year-old was a very difficult job.

Being next to Max is very difficult, but being next to Max in Red Bull is something people don’t understand. There are so many things I could tell you, but it is simply a very difficult job for a driver.

Sergio Perez said, as reported by Sky Sports.

Sergio Perez boldly claimed that no driver can survive against Max Verstappen. Even if Lewis Hamilton or Charles Leclerc were put against the reigning world champion, they would struggle massively against Verstappen. Perez explained that the Dutchman’s driving style was very unique, and a driver needed to constantly adapt their driving style as per the needs of the former.

No driver can survive there. It doesn’t matter if you bring Hamilton, Leclerc. Whoever you bring there is going to struggle massively. It’s a very unique driving style. You have to constantly be adapting to the needs of Max. It’s as simple as that.

Sergio Perez added.

Sergio Perez labels Max Verstappen as the ‘action’ of Formula 1

Midway through the 2025 season, Max Verstappen was unable to keep up with his race-winning form. The Dutchman lost out massively in the title fight and claimed that his results did not matter anymore, as he was not in the title battle.