Mark Hughes and Ben Anderson, writers for the Race, have suggested that Sergio Perez’s decline of late has made Alex Albon look a better Red Bull team-mate to Max Verstappen. Albon took over from Pierre Gasly at the Austrian side in 2019 after the Frenchman’s horrible experience in the first half of the season, and he managed to out-qualify the Dutchman once. The Thai-Briton might even have ended up on the podium in Brazil had it not been for a misjudged move by Sir Lewis Hamilton, who arguably cost Albon victory by hitting him again in Austria in 2020. The now 26-year-old was out-qualified at every race by Verstappen in the COVID-hit season, and his two podiums were not enough to keep...
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