Christian Horner has clarified that Sergio Perez’s lately signed two-year extension with Pink Bull gives the Milton Keynes-based outfit the pliability to half methods with the Mexican driver on the finish of 2025.
Forward of final weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, Pink Bull confirmed that Perez had been awarded a brand new two-year contract that runs till the top of 2026, thus protecting the primary season of Formulation 1’s next-generation engine and technical laws.
The renewal was anticipated, even regardless of Perez’s current stoop that has saved him off the rostrum since final April’s Chinese language Grand Prix.
Nevertheless, it got here to gentle in Montreal final weekend that Perez’s new deal solely ensures the six-time Grand Prix winner a single season of regular work with Pink Bull.
This element was revealed by Horner – maybe inadvertently – when the Pink Bull chief commented on Perez’s renewal but additionally on the extension supplied to Visa Money App RB’s Yuki Tsunoda.
“They’re all Pink Bull drivers,” Horner advised Sky F1.
“We now have determined to increase Checo for yet one more 12 months, however within the meantime we additionally needed to train the choice of Yuki. He’s doing nice at RB in the meanwhile. So sure, he’ll keep for an additional 12 months.”
In a while, talking to Swedish streaming service Viaplay, Horner clarified the phrases of Perez’s settlement.
“Effectively, 1+1=2, so it’s a two-year contract,” the Briton confirmed. “As with every contract, there’s loads in it, however that’s, after all, between the motive force and the staff.”
With Pink Bull Racing’s line-up signed and sealed for 2025, and with Tsunoda’s tenure with RB now additionally locked in, Horner and Helmut Marko will flip their consideration to the second seat on the Faenza-based outfit.
The phrase within the paddock is that Ricciardo’s state of affairs with the staff stays tenuous at finest, though the Aussie did himself no hurt by delivering in Canada his finest race weekend of the 12 months.
However it’s rumored that if the 34-year-old can’t uphold his newfound type within the upcoming races, Pink Bull is more likely to substitute Ricciardo with reserve driver Liam Lawson.
In any case, the Kiwi is within the operating for a seat with RB in 2025. But when no materializes, he would then be free to depart the bulls and go his personal approach in F1.
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