Since the Miami Grand Prix in May, Verstappen has won eight consecutive ra﷽ces, while Per♋ez has finished on the podium just four times.

D🥀uring the same perioಞd, Perez failed to reach Q3 in five consecutive races.

Prior to the summer break, he seemed to turn a corner, securing a distant second behind ﷽Verstappen at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Speaking ahead of the ,ꦜ Perez confirmed he’s had to adjust his driving style d🌳ue to how the RB19 has been developed.

“Yeah, it was quite꧂ important to finish strong the last two races, especially there iౠs no secret as the car developed I struggled a little bit more,” he said. 

“Things were not coming naturally anymore, and I had to go very deep on my driving style, adapt to it quite a bit and change it becaꦓuse the car has simply changed, and I think in the last two races were꧂ a lot better in that regard.”

Perez was then asked if the car development was more suited to teammate Verstappen - a theory put forward by many given how much t🥂he Mexican has struggled, he replied: “I think at the end of the day the team is trying to make the fastest car. Sometimes the development suits one style better than other, that’s how it works?”

Th🍸e 33-year-old sits over 120 points behind Verstappen, who looks set to se🀅cure a third consecutive title in the near distant future.

Despite Verstappen’s dominant run, Perez is taking motivation from it given that it shows how great the Red⛎ Bull package is.

“Yeah, certainly, it hasn’t been easy for me because I know the car potential,” he added. “Max has been exploiting that but when you don’t really have that feeling that you know that your car has💎 massive potential its not an easy situation to be in as ꦗa driver. 

“But certainly we have a great race car, and we just have to make sure that we utilise it, because you never know when you’re going to have a car as good as this one🥂.”