“Back to reality” as Sergio Perez hit with “on his way out the door” verdict
"One swallow doesn’t make a summ🅷er. One good result is not what you expect"

Sergio Pere꧂z could follow Daniel Ricciardo out of the Red Bull exit door unless he improves qui🦹ckly, fears David Coulthard.
Perez has scoreওd only one point in the past two💞 grands prix combined, as Red Bull have fallen behind McLaren in the constructors’ championship.
A lat🦂e crash in Azerbaijan while he was challenging for a podium was unfortunate, bu🅰t Perez followed it up with a drab P10 in Singapore.
“He did brilliantly ꦍin Baku but one swallow doesn’t make a summer,” David Coulthard assessed for Channel 4.
“One good result is not what you expect. 𓂃He is clea✱rly the No2 driver in that team.
“There was so much relief off the back of Baku. Here, it was back to reali🧔ty.
“If he doesn’t get solid points for🌼 the remainder of the year then, like Daniel Ricciardo, it looks like he’s on the way out of the door.
“It could be the same situation for Perez.”
Ricciardo’s lack of form for RB this season means he will be replaced b🍷y Liam Lawson fo🌺r the remainder of the season.
ꦯPerez avoided being replaced at the midway stage, and received additional backing from Red Bull.
But with McLaren duo Lando Norris a♍nd Oscar Piastri each running at the front at every round, Perez’s lack of points has caused an issue for Red Bull in the constructors’.
Max Verstappen’s Pᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ2 in Singapore, behind Norris, offered some res𒆙pite for Red Bull.
“They came with a set-up which was based around the difficulไties they had last year. It didn’t work,” Coulthard analysed.
“They rever❀ted to something a bit more in their 🍸window of operation.
“Max was brilliantly capable of extracting a lap which secured them thꦍe front row. Maybe it could have been different if Oscar hadn’t had his difficulties.
“But the stopwatch doesn’t lie. The grid was it was. Second was th﷽e best they could hope for.”

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Am🐽erican sports, to football, to F1.