Sergio Perez makes wild psychologist revelation about Red Bull F1 stint

Sergio Perez says he was instructed to see a £6000-per-hour psychologist by Crimson Bull early into his stint with the Components 1 group.

The Mexican was signed to Crimson Bull for the 2021 season, although he encountered a tough begin to his time as he failed to attain a podium inside the primary 5 rounds.

He bagged a primary win for the group in Azerbaijan on the sixth spherical of the season and made semi-regular podium appearances after that.

In an look on the Cracks podcast, Sergio Perez revealed Crimson Bull instructed him he wanted to work with a psychologist early into his first season with the group, which proved to be a £6000 cellphone name.

“As quickly as I arrived at Crimson Bull, within the first races, once I didn’t ship outcomes, [the team said], ‘What you want is a psychologist, you must see a psychologist’.

“Someday I arrived on the Crimson Bull manufacturing unit they usually inform me, ‘Hey, there’s a invoice for you’. [It was] £6000 from the psychologist.

“I inform them, ‘Ah, are you able to ship it to Helmut [Marko], he’ll pay it. It was £6000 for one name.

“Then Helmut tells me, ‘Hey, how did it go?’. I instructed him, ‘Excellent, with this session we’re all set’. And that’s how we went on for 3 years.

“Already cured by the psychologist, the outcomes began to come back. Properly, the decision labored.”

Perez gained 5 grands prix in whole for Crimson Bull, and managed a better of second within the championship in 2023.

A lacklustre 2024 season, nevertheless, wherein he slumped to eighth within the standings, led to him shedding his drive.

“Within the final years, it was a lot that I stated, ‘Properly, perhaps I do need assistance, proper? The outcomes aren’t coming’.

“I appeared for it all over the place, however deep down I knew completely effectively that when you’ve gotten a automotive the place you’re serious about what’s going to occur, what it is going to do, wherein nook you’re going to crash, you possibly can’t go quick.

“And on prime of that, you’ve gotten your complete group in opposition to you. Publicly, it was very tough.

“I believe solely somebody very mentally sturdy can stand up to one thing like that.”

Perez will return to the F1 grid this yr with the brand new Cadillac group.