• Rule14@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    At this point I’m wondering whether Perez has been going through serious personal stuff that we don’t know about.

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      1 year ago

      I’m just guessing here, but when Häkkinen became a father, he said he lost his fearlessness that you need to compete at the top level. I know Checo already has children, but he has just had a fourth one, so maybe his mind his there a bit more? Combine that with Verstappens hyper domination that would easily crush all but the toughest minds. I have no idea whether he actually believed that he could challenge for the WDC after the first four races, so that might play a part, too? He has always had mid season slumps at Red Bull, but this one is turning out to be quite a big one…