“They’ve never rated him!” Sergio Perez replacement theory swatted away

"Helmut Marko doesn’t think he’s any good"

Sergio Perez
Sergio Perez

A touted replacement for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez at Red Bull has been knocked ba🐠ck because their management don’t “rate him”, it has been claimed.

After the F1 Qatar Grand Prix, Valt🗹teri Bottas was suggested by some onlookerཧs to be the answer to Red Bull’s problems.

Bottas is soon out-of-contracღt, will lose his Sauber seat and won’t be in Formula 1 in 2൩025 unless something huge changes.

Sergio Perez’s Red Bull replacement?

Perez’s form won’t be enough to stay 🐻in his Red Bull seat next year, it was debated on the F1 Nation podcast.

“No, not in the way that he would need to keep running in that team,” Alex Jacques analysed. “It’s a sa🧸d thing to say.

“He is a 🉐six-time grand prix winner who has had some great days. But I don’t think he will continue with that team.”

Tom Clarkson asked: “I will revisit the🃏 Valtteri Bottas thing - name me someone better who is available?”

Jacques replied: “I could name lots of people. But H🅰elmut Marko doesn’t th🔜ink he’s any good so it’s not going to happen.

“The power dynamic in that team, Mar✤ko has never thought he is a top driver🐽.”

Cl𒁏arkson said: “We need Helmut to come and sit next to us. With Max in the other car, you need a quick, consistent, apolitical dri෴ver to bang it into the top five.”

Jacques: “Two or three tenths 🍰from Max’s time in qualifying, put it i༒nto the top five, that gets you closer to the constructors’.

“He was brilliant for M๊🍒ercedes at doing that. But they’re not doing that.”

Valtteri Bottas “they don’t like me” claim

Bottas claimed that&nbꦓsp;“there are some people at Red 💞Bull who don’t really like me”.

That individual was later🌌 identified as Marko, by Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz.

ltxcn.top learned in th꧅e Qatar paddock that Red Bull won’t make a dec☂ision on the under-fire Perez’s future until after this weekend’s season-finale in Abu Dhabi.

Horner said Perez will be left to “come to his own conclusions” about whether to stay in h𝔍is race seat.

Is Yuki Tsunoda the answer?

RB teammates Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson are the key 👍candida🐭tes to replace Perez, from Red Bull’s sister team.

But Jacques commented on Tsunoda: “I don’t 🦩thinkಞ they’ve ever rated him, truly.

“He’s had four years in Formula൩ 1 because of the Honda pro꧙gramme.

“Y❀uki has a high ceiling of performan🔯ce but they worry about his consistency.

“There are differ🍰ences of opinion there, which is why it has taken time to resolve this.”

The postseason test next Tuesday i𓂃n Abu Dhabi might be the final chance for drivers to state their case.

“Maybe, if he has 💦an incredible test,” Jacq🥀ues said about Tsunoda.

✨“Remember how much they talked up Daniel Ricciardo’s test last year at Silverstone?

“I think it will be Liam Lawson or Yuki.”

Haꦜas Test and Reserve Driver Pietro Fittipaldi added: “Checo is my friend and I wan⛦t him to continue. But I agree they will get someone from within their pool of drivers.

“Maybe it’s for the best that he do🃏esn’t continue. But as a racer, I know he wants to race🌼.

“I would put Tsunoda in. The test in Abu Dhabi, you can 🐟defi🔯nitely tell.”

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