Re: Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM.....

I agree that Bottas is definitely better than Perez, this is obvious on drivers' standings as well but also it is obvious from the very last race as well. Mercedes seems to find some more speed, even Bottas managed to keep Max behind which wasn't something I expected to be fair.
At the end of the day Perez missed so many chances to be there, whereas Bottas always uses his chances and gains points. Dude may not be the best driver in the world, and he is racing in a wonderful car, but he also managed to come in second so many years behind Hamilton as well, that should show you that he has been a good teammate to Hamilton even if not a great driver himself. Where is perez? Dude is so much behind Max, if you want a good teammate, then that teammate should be around you, this is why Bottas has been great but he is now 30+ years old and since they can't fire Hamilton, they needed to send Bottas away to get a younger blood.

The number one problem for Perez is that his usually underperformed in Q3 so he starts far behind the top and cannot offer the assistance to Verstappen also he was unlucky on some races as RedBull strategy most of the time is not helping him, as he dropped points one time so that Hamilton doesn't get extra points from fast lap so he pitted and took it from him but it costs him losing points from the race.
I think both Bottas and Perez are helping their own team but Bittas is also benefitting from qualifying high and getting more points for the Constructors championship.

^ I think that if Perez could be a bit more consistent, Verstappen would have done better than he is doing right now. Not that Max is doing bad right now, but there is always room for improvement. Bottas has to be one of the best wingmen in F1. He himself is a very good driver and supports Hamilton very good. But I'm afraid he might lose some of his sharpness when he switches to Alfa Romeo as Mercedes clearly has a better car than them. But I knew that the track favored Mercedes a bit but never expected Bottas would win it with a big margin from the 2nd placed Verstappen.

Bottas winning in Turkey came as a bit of surprise but it was not a long shot because he performed well in qualifying and Verstappen was not feeling that the car was well optimized for this GP and that's made him not making it to Bottas.
And this time there have been questions raised by RedBull over the speed that Mercedes have as they are saying they are not on DRS but fast enough to the speed reached with DRS going on straights despite that Lewis Hamilton had a big wing at the back his speed in long runs have not been matched by RB cars recently.