Max Verstappen Red Bull exit “possibility” has huge Sergio Perez knock-on effect

Could Red Bull somehow end up with an unexpec🐬ted driver line-up in 2025 or '26?

(L to R): second placed Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing with team mate and race winner Max Verstappen (NLD) Red Bull
(L to R): second placed Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing with team mate and race winner Max…

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s Red Bull career could eventually be saved by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen - but only if their star driver quits the team.

The hypothesis about the 2025 F1 driver line-up was mooted on the  podcast.

Perez is fighting for his future at F1’s top team with 𒐪his contract expiring and a number of rivals eyeing his dominant ca𝕴r.

“Put Max in the equaඣtion,” L’Equipe journalist♌ Fred Ferret suggested before the Australian Grand Prix.

“He may have to leave, at one point.

“I🍌f he leaves Red Bull, things are very different.

“Then, I would say, that Checo'🥀s s🧸eat is saved because you need someone with the legacy of driving the old cars.

“This is something you need in♏ your mind for 2025 and laℱter.”

But Natalie Pinkham replied: “I would be absolutely amazed if Max left🐲 for 202💟5. I could see potentially '26, with the engine change.

“Perhapꦉ🌌s he knows something that we don't about how far advanced Red Bull area, in that area.

“It would be staggering to walk away from this rocket sh💧i𒀰p of a car in '25!”

Ferret asked: “Did you bet at Christmas that♓ Lewis Hamilton would go to Ferrari?”

Pinkham answered: “But we're talking about walking away from a tot🍸ally dominant car! We're not talking about walking away from a Mercedes.

“Say he's got this year ✱sewn up, his fourth [title]. He's going to walk away from a fifth?

“It would be ridiculous to.”

But Ferret said: “I am not that sure. Maybe Max, because of Jos and Helmut and eve🍰rything, will have to leave.

“I will say that it's a possibility…”

As it stands, the race is for the second Red Bull seat alongside Verstappen in ꦡ2025.

Carlos Sainz, Fernando Alonso, Alex Albon and Daniel Ricciardo are among ওthe drivers to have been linked with the coveted position at various points.

“Perez is d꧒oin📖g everything asked of him,” Pinkham insisted.

“He’s bringing it home cleanly in secoཧnd [in the first two grands prix].

“You can’t fault him. What else is he sup𒁃pose൲d to do?

“It feels like there has b🐽een a shift. Maybe it's too soon to tell. But it feels like there has been a shift in his mind-set as to how he approaches this season.

“Think back to last year. Getting that win in Saudi last year gave him the shot in the arm tha🐼t he needed that [a title challenge] was possiജble.

“We know he is a street circuit specialist. “Suddenly we thought, hang on🔯, game on here! Only to be put back in his box by Max.

“If he comes back into it, this year, with a different mentality he may well drive better. “He may relax. Take the 💯pressure off.

“He is tenac𓆉ious, we know that. But sometimes he makes mistakes when the pressure is on.

“Right now, he is doing enough.”

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