TERRIBLE NEWS For Perez After BOLD Red Bull Decision!

just 5 weeks ago Sergio Perez's future at Red Bull appeared secure after signing a contract extension with the team how times have quickly changed as the Mexican drivers form has slumped alarmingly to such an extent Red Bull's defense of its constructor's Championship is coming under serious threat Perez has scored just 15 points in his past six races compared to 103 over the first six to leave Red Bull just 71 points ahead of Ferrari and 78 clear of McLaren F1 reports revealed there are clauses in Perez's contract that if he is 100 points in five places behind teammate Max verstappen after the Belgian Grand Prix then the team could bring in a replacement at the moment Perez is 137 points a drift of verstappen and is sixth in the driver's standings but only seven points ahead of George Russell and eight in front of Lewis Hamilton with the Mercedes do1 form in a vastly improved car the British Grand Prix weekend was a new low point for Perez in qualifying he spun off the track in q1 beaching his car in the gravel at cops scheduled to start 19th the team opted to change power unit components under Park F conditions leading to him starting from the pit Lane although still driving one of the best cars on the grid Perez finished an in glorious 17th a switch to intermediates too early played a significant role although he hardly cut through the field beforehand all of this comes after Perez signed a new 1pl one contract in early June based on his good start to the season and primarily to maintain stability within the team however the opposite has happened Red Bull is struggling to keep up with the development pace of the competition and is finding out the hard way the gulf between verstappen and Perez is vast the upshot is that Red Bull's strangle hold on the constructor's championship is under serious threat Perez does not need to win every race in the rb20 but the car is still good enough to finish comfortably inside the points over the course of these events Red Bull have lost ground to both Mercedes and McLaren and whilst verstappen's lead in the driver title race is relatively secure at present Red Bull's hopes to notch up their seventh constructor's Championship looks dubious at present much has been made of czecho dip in form and comparisons are being made to the summer of 2023 yet this season his results are far worse and a similar comeback to the end of last year is NY on Impossible over the course of the 20 races czecho completed in 2023 he finished outside the top six in Grand Prix only three times in the six grand prix rounds since Miami this season he has failed to make the top six at all and scored just 14 points for his team meanwhile oscap piastri in just his second year in F1 has two second places and collected 76 points for a resurgent McLaren team in the same time frame team boss Christian Herer was unequivocal about Perez's situation after the British Grand Prix he knows it's unsustainable to not be scoring points we have to to be scoring points in that car and he knows that he knows his role and his Target so nobody is more eager than czecho to get back and find his form again with Perez having signed a contract extension with the team last month that will see him race for them through to the end of 2026 Herer was quizzed on whether there was a sense of frustration over the deal having seemingly not helped the driver on track of course there's frustration when both of your cars aren't performing collectively and I think it was frustrating to lose czecho in q1 yesterday he'd missed P1 because of Isaac haar driving he'd had a decent P2 but he should have been around the top six and to lose that car in q1 was very frustrating so yeah that's where we're at Herer confirmed that Perez will be running a new floor at the next round on the calender in Hungary an update that was brought to verstappen's car during the British Grand Prix weekend meanwhile Red Bull Reserve driver Liam Lawson is set to participate in an upcoming test session for the team at Silverstone just as Daniel Ricardo Did Last Summer which prompted the decision for the Australian to replace the struggling Nick Dev at the then named Alpha Tory Squad asked about the parallels between Lawson's test and Ricardo's and whether a driver lineup Shuffle could potentially be on the cards amid Perez's recent struggles Herer answered the Liam test Arrow run has been planned for a couple of months now czecho of course he's under pressure that's normal in Formula 1 but when you're under delivering that pressure only mounts and he's aware of of that he knows that this weekend nothing's really gone his way we took a gamble in the race he started on the hard tire was making decent progress early on in the race the rain started to arrive he was p15 or p16 at the time you roll the dice a little at that point as Ferrari did with lir he went on the inter if the race had picked up he'd have looked a hero it didn't so you don't and then he had an extra stop the time loss of being on an inter on a drying track was hemorrhaging a lot of time for him obviously a lot to look at from over the weekend so Perez could lose his Red Bull seat this summer following a string of poor performances with the Austrian team's adviser helmet Marco admitting an evaluation is planned all Formula 1 contracts have exit Clauses most of them related to Performance or let's say for the top drivers as I mentioned before we will have an evaluation during the summer break and then we will make a decision McLaren CEO Zack Brown believes Perez has opened a window that has allowed his team to sent F1 title Glory this year McLaren and Norris have emerged as the nearest Challengers to Red Bull and verstappen in the constructors and driver standings following an improvement in performance since the delivery of an upgrade at the Miami Grand Prix the woking based team is just 78 points a drift of Red Bull and although Norris has failed to capitalize on a number of opportunities that have come his way after breaking his F1 Victory duck in Miami he is 84 points shy of verstappen although Norris's task to reel in ver stappen over the remaining 12 races is an incredibly tough one McLaren cannot be discounted from overhauling Red Bull thanks to Perez whether Red Bull retains Perez after the summer break remains to be seen but for now McLaren is grateful for his assistance with Norris and Oscar piastri both competing at the front of the grid asked as to his team's title chances Brown said I think it's going to be dependent upon Perez at the end of the day you have to assume Max is going to be first second or third at every race the balance of the year and probably more firsts than thirds Perez underperforming is what's opening the window for us I think if we have the same points gain as we've had the last six races the balance of the Year we'd get the job done so we're fully aware of it Mclaren has gained 37 points on Red Bull over those six grand prix referred to by Brown similar gains over the remaining 12 would see it fall Four Points shy however Anything Can Happen Brown is naturally refusing to get too carried away taking a leaf out of the book of Team principal Andrea Stella the way Andrea motivates the team It's All About the Weekend the next session and the next week we know we can do it but that's not what's driving our motivation what's driving our motivation is trying to get better every session every week and the outcome will take care of itself after a fresh q1 exit at Silverstone followed by finishing the rain affected race two laps behind winner Lewis Hamilton the pressure is mounting significantly on Perez with Red Bull keeping a nervous watch on the constructor's championship their dominance seemingly done with the constructor's championship genuinely under threat this year with Red Bull Fielding one strong driver against two car teams at Mercedes McLaren and Ferrari is it time to drop Perez back from the front line and get Ricardo or Lawson in the seat for the last 10 races of the Year let us know your thoughts in the comments down below and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for the latest F1 news

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Published: Fri Jul 12 2024