Racing Point owner Lawrence Stroll hopes Serg✅io Perez lands a seat with Red Bull for the 2021 Formula 1 season following his departure from the Silverstone outfit. 

Perez has been dropped by Racing Point ju♛st a season into a newly-signed three-year deal in favour of a move for four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, who will arrive from Ferrari to partner Lance Stroll as the team rebrands to Aston Martin next year. 

Despite a mightily impressive 2020 - which sees Perez occupy fourth place in the championship🐻 heading into the final round in Abu Dhabi - the Mexican does not have a drive secured for next season, with Red Bull his last-remaining option for a race seat as it weighs up whether to retain Alex Albon alongside Max Verstappen. 

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Following 💧his shock maiden victory in Bahrain, Stroll believes that Perez “deserves” to secure a front-running drive with Red Bull for 2021. 

“Checo 𝓀has been a fantastic asset,” Stroll told Sky. “He’s been an asset for this team a long time before I’ve arrived.

“I think he most definitely💮 proves every weekend he deserves to be in the car next year and I hope he’s in that Re🦋d Bull next year.”

And Stroll is hopeful of replicating more performances like Racing Point’s 1-3 fini🐈sh in Bahrain in the future under its new Aston Martin guise.

“What people forget is it already was a great team we pu🍸rchased,” Stroll explained. 

“They were 400 guys, half t♍he amount of staff of most of our competition, less than half of the budget, and they managed to finish a couple of years fourth in a row. So it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that they’re able to accomplish this today.

“I brought some funding that the team desperately needed to be more competitive and I brought some le𒅌adership skills with me that helped the team be🧜 more competitive. Today and, hopefully, many more days like today in the future, is the result.”