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Bottas drives Mercedes W16 on 2026 Pirelli tyres in Mexico

Valtteri Bottas completed 112 laps in a Mercedes W16 fitted with 2026-spec Pirelli tyres at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, logging 693 km alongside team-mate Frederik Vesti. Stake Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto added 585 km on Tuesday, giving Pirelli 1 278 km of crucial data before the December 9 Abu Dhabi collective test that will lock in the narrower front and rear slick dimensions for the new-regulation era.

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THE IMPOSSIBLE TASK OF BEING VERSTAPPEN’S TEAMMATE AT RED BULL

“No driver could survive there,” says Sergio Pérez in an unfiltered testimony about his time alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull. The former teammate of the four-time world champion describes a deeply unbalanced environment where the second driver is systematically relegated to a supporting role. “Even Lewis Hamilton or Charles Leclerc would struggle,” he insists, emphasizing that Red Bull’s entire structure is optimized around Verstappen—at the expense of sporting fairness. For Pérez, lasting four years alongside him wasn’t just success; it was an act of “survival.”

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