"I find it quite amazing that after three weekends when I had two good weekends in terms of maximising the car potential, that after one bad weekend I received so many criticisms.
"But I think this is quite normal and usual for a team like McLaren."
"Two" good weekends? Sergio, you have NOT had "two" good weekends.
Relative to 'car potential' he hasn't done that bad.
No where near as well as Jenson though. They've been miles apart so far.
No, I agree, dont get me wrong - but surely, we expect the much more experienced, no.1 driver, former world champion to be much better than Sergio to begin with?
I think we will have a much better idea, come the end of the season...?
Whitmarsh himself said last year Sergio was not the finished article and that Mclaren were good at developing promising young drivers. It was stated clearly that he was to develop at Mclaren. Just like the other teams with fresh drivers like Lotus with Grosjean it is always understood that you cannot judge the young guy by the standards of the experienced settled guy you are balancing the team with.
Last year Button an experienced driver did much worse relative to Lewis at a time the car was not as supposedly bad as it has been now, if you are going to criticise your drivers in public why praise this guy in that situation and put down the guy in this situation?
Perez has not done badly at all for a newcomer to a team compared to his experienced teammate. He has been closer than Massa was to Alonso when he had car problems last year, closer than Grosjean now to Kimi, and the Mclaren is supposed to be all over the place.
Plus they gave him a silly strategy in China that killed his race, he wasnt bad before the guinea pig option tyre stint. All he has done wrong is a couple of errors when pushing a crap car
Its just not fair at all and like Lewis did I hope Sergio holds his head high and continues to do his best and ignores the horse poo. As the car gets better I am sure from what weve seen so far he can match Button when things are good for him.
