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F1 needs Perez to keep performing at his best

LONDON : Sergio Perez may have had his best race yet in Sunday's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix but Formula One desperately needs the Mexican to keep it up in a season turning into a tale of two Red Bull team mates.

The evidence from Bahrain and Jeddah suggests Max Verstappen, who started 15th on Sunday and was second already by the halfway point, will otherwise have his third successive title wrapped up in short order.

Perez, who started on pole position under the floodlights in Saudi Arabia, and his championship leading team mate are separated by just one point, a fastest lap, with everybody else fighting for the leftovers.

Neutrals will join Mexican fans in hoping the 33-year-old veteran, signed at the end of 2020 as solid support for the team's star talent, can at least give Verstappen some sort of a run for his money.

Red Bull were dominant last year and they have been in a league of their own so far in 2023 - dropping only one point (for a fastest lap) out of a maximum 88 available.

They are enjoying their best ever start to a season with two one-two finishes.

Only one driver - Mercedes' George Russell in Brazil last November - has beaten them since July 2022 and Red Bull have won 12 of the last 13 races with some predicting they could sweep all 23 this year.

Verstappen won 15 of the 22 races last year to Perez's two triumphs.

"I’ve definitely never seen a car so fast," Mercedes' seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton told reporters after finishing fifth in Jeddah.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, who knows a thing or two about serial success after his team racked up eight constructors' championship in a row from 2014, put a more positive spin on the situation.

"We've had those years where we were as strong, but it's a meritocracy,"

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