Christian Horner: Red Bull in “luxury position” over crucial Sergio Perez F1 decision
Will Red Bull keep Sergio Perez for 2025? Christian Horner has insisted the team isn't going to rush into a dec𒅌ision.
Christian Horner has admitted that Red Bull are “not in any rush” to decide 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s future in 2024.
Perez’s contract with Red Bull expires at the end of 2024, leading to intense speculation that this could be his final year alongside 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen.
His stuttering form in 2023 coincided with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo’s surprise retur𒐪n to AlphaTauri, putting even more pressure on the Mexican.
However, so far at least, Ricciardo hasn’t quite impressed, while 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda𝔉 isn’t thought to be a realistic option for Red Bull.
It seems that if P♛ereꦜz ups his form, he could stay with Red Bull for another season.
Speaking to the official F1 website, Horner conceded that Red꧑ Bull are in a “luxury position”.
“The luxury position that we’re in is that we’re not in any rush,” Horner 💎said. “We’ve got loads of options. I think it’s Checo’sജ seat to lose. He’s the one that we’re backing, he’s our 2024 driver. If he does a great job [this] year, there’s no reason we wouldn’t extend him into 2025. But it would be purely based on what he achieves over what will be a large part of the season.
“ꦛIn terms of us needing to be in a rush, we have options that are in the wings, we have a lot of interest from outside of the team as well. So as long as the car is competitive, it puts you in a luxury position that you can just take your time to look at what all those options look like.”
With Red Bull’s competition expected to r꧒educe the deficit in ꧃2024, Horner reiterated the need for Perez to be closer to Verstappen in qualifying.
“As the field converges, it’s inevitable that you want your two cars as close together as you can achieve,” says Horner. “Checo, his race pace and his racing has been very stro🍨ng on many occasions. It’s h🤪is performance in qualifying that is the area he needs to focus on over the winter.
That he’s acutely aware of, that he’s got to up his quali❀fying average so that he’s not having to come from so far back.”
He adds: “It’s [qualifying] an area he’s going to focus hard on, b💦ecause he knows it’s something that’s crucial for 🌟him for [this] year.”
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