Sergio Perez has managed to considerably salvage his season by securing P2 in the championship standings forward of Lewis Hamilton. However, F1 analyst Will Buxton believes that Perez’s seat is in hazard so long as Daniel Ricciardo is driving for AlphaTauri.
On considered one of the episodes of The Fast And The Curious Podcast, host Greg James requested Buxton if Perez’s seat in Red Bull was protected after he managed to safe the P2 that the workforce at all times wished from him. Buxton instantly replied, “No Way!”
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Buxton went on to clarify that Perez won’t ever be protected so long as Ricciardo is racing for AlphaTauri. The F1 skilled claimed that Red Bull have realized that the solely one who can push Verstappen as a teammate is Ricciardo.
Buxton defined, “If Daniel will get again to Daniel’s type of outdated, then they’ll stick him in the automotive subsequent to Max [Verstappen] as a result of they have been the greatest driver lineup they’d in phrases of a two-driver workforce. I feel, ever.” The British analyst then claimed that issues are by no means safe when it comes to Red Bull.
They can select to sack Perez even after two or three races into the season, or they may not do it in any respect. However, the one factor that’s clear is that Red Bull don’t take a mushy method in direction of their drivers. As per Buxton, the Milton-Keynes outfit believes in bringing in competitors and pushing their drivers to carry out to their restrict, which they’re doing with Perez.
Verstappen has no downside being teammates with Perez or Ricciardo
Max Verstappen shares a constructive relationship with each of the drivers and he instructed the media forward of the Sao Paulo GP that he had no downside working with both Sergio Perez or Daniel Ricciardo. He had mentioned, “They have been nice teammates and it’s not up to me at the finish of the day to make these varieties of choices as a result of I’m very centered alone efficiency.”
Therefore, this can be very clear that it doesn’t fear Verstappen who he’ll get as his teammate for subsequent 12 months. Meanwhile, Ricciardo revealed after the Mexican GP that he didn’t have any dialog with the Red Bull administration for a doable drive in 2024. Therefore, because it stands proper now, Perez will retain his seat until the finish of 2024 not less than.
