Crimson Bull crew principal Christian Horner admitted they might change their driver line-up earlier than the 2025 Method 1 season begins.
Max Verstappen might clinch the drivers’ championship for the fourth 12 months in a row this weekend. Nevertheless Sergio Perez has under-performed for a lot of the season within the crew’s second automobile, leaving Crimson Bull solely third within the constructors’ championship.
Perez has scored simply eight factors over the past 5 rounds. Horner stated the crew want him to contribute extra of their effort to overtake McLaren and Ferrari.
“Sergio is our driver and we wish to do the perfect to get essentially the most out of him,” Horner instructed the official F1 channel. “He’s had a extremely powerful run of kind over current weeks and months.
“From a constructors’ standpoint, we desperately want each vehicles proper up there working as a pair, which we haven’t had. So clearly, hopefully Checo can get some robust performances in these final three races.
“However there’s no method we’re going to have the ability to win the constructors championship with out that.”
Crimson Bull positioned Liam Lawson at their second crew, RB, three races in the past. In addition they produce other drivers underneath contract together with Lawson’s crew mate Yuki Tsunoda in addition to main junior drivers Ayumu Iwasa and Isack Hadjar.
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The crew prolonged Perez’s contract in June and he has insisted “I, 100%, will probably be right here subsequent 12 months.” However Horner stated the groups’ contracts with their roster of drivers provides them choices to make a change for 2025.
“All of the drivers that we have now underneath contract, we’re very clear on what their contractual conditions are,” he stated. “We might, if we so selected, depart all of it the way in which up till Melbourne subsequent 12 months [the opening round] if we wish to as a result of we have now drivers underneath contract.
“However inevitably on the finish of the 12 months, we’ll sit down and have a look at all the data that’s accessible to us.”
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