Perez looks less to Verstappen: 'More and more choosing my own direction'

Where Max Verstappen dominated the last triple header and is on top of the world championship, Sergio Perez is getting in better shape. His race at the Austrian GP was not his best, but before that the performance only got better. And there was, it turns out, an explanation for his performance at the Austrian GP.

Perez says to Motorsport.com that he needs to look less and less to Verstappen to get the set-up working. "Yes, I'm starting to do it more and more on my own, choosing my own direction. It's harder to compare the setup when both cars are not running with the same aerodynamic specifications. Then it's definitely important to go our own way."

Perez made changes in Austria

Because at the start, things were anything but smooth. In the meantime, Perez is starting to get the set-up more and more under control. He went to work on it himself during the Austrian GP. The race was not a great success, partly due to mistakes made by himself, but the Mexican has learned a lot.

"We took a very different approach to the setup, also to discover things. We tried to discover some things with and about the car. We took this opportunity to get to know the car much better from the reference we already had. In the end we made the right adjustments and I think we definitely have a better car for the race than for qualifying." Still, Verstappen's teammate ultimately had to choose the middle ground.

"We ended up somewhere in the middle. We did it very differently, but in the end we ended up somewhere in the middle. So we did a bit differently than in the first race at the Red Bull Ring, but we went back a bit more and more."

Perez will be hoping to develop further during the British GP at Silverstone when it comes to the car's set-up, while also taking solitary points in contention for the constructors' championship.