Crimson Bull Group Principal Christian Horner has given his clearest indication but as to who would fill Sergio Perez’s seat on the group in 2025 ought to Crimson Bull and Perez determine to half firm.
Having netted 4 podiums within the first 5 Grands Prix of 2024, Perez endured a making an attempt remainder of the season, scoring simply 49 factors between spherical seven in Imola and spherical 24 in Abu Dhabi – lower than he’d scored within the first 4 race weekends of the 12 months.
That noticed Crimson Bull droop to P3 within the constructors’ by season finish, behind winners McLaren and Ferrari, and regardless of Max Verstappen successful the title two rounds early. Certainly, had the second Crimson Bull accrued the identical variety of factors (437) as Verstappen, the group would have received the constructors’ by over 200 factors.
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Regardless of Crimson Bull having handed Perez a two-year contract extension in June, the Mexican’s efficiency has led to speak that he may very well be changed for 2025 – with Horner implying that his selection can be between present RB drivers Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda, who had his first ever Crimson Bull check in Abu Dhabi earlier this week.
Requested concerning the efficiency of Lawson in 2025 – the New Zealander having changed Daniel Ricciardo at RB from the US Grand Prix – Horner replied: “I feel Liam, in difficult circumstances, has achieved an excellent job. In case you analyse what he’s achieved within the time that he’s had and the race tempo he’s had, I feel he’s achieved a superb job.
“I feel Yuki’s achieved a superb job, so within the occasion that something had been determined with Checo they’d be the candidates we’d look in direction of.”
