Last Updated: March 21, 2024, 11:58 IST
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez of Mexico solutions questions throughout a press convention forward of the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
Max Verstappen’s future has been the speak of the Australian Grand Prix paddock at Albert Park this week with Red Bull allegedly divided over its latest controversy involving workforce principal Christian Horner.
Sergio Pérez has downplayed hypothesis that his three-time Formula 1 world champion teammate Max Verstappen may very well be contemplating a change from Red Bull to Mercedes.
Verstappen’s future has been the speak of the Australian Grand Prix paddock at Albert Park this week with Red Bull allegedly divided over its latest controversy involving workforce principal Christian Horner.
Pérez stays satisfied the workforce is united.
“The team is in a very strong position, because with the results we’re currently having, the harmony that there is in the team, I think to achieve that it takes a couple of years probably,” Pérez stated on the eve of the primary follow periods in Melbourne.
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Verstappen has received the primary two races of the F1 season in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Perez completed second in each Grand Prix races.
“Right now, the dynamic, everyone in the team is working really well together, the whole engineering group, it’s really united,” Perez stated. “And you can see that on-track, and how efficient we’ve been in the last year. So I don’t see any reason to change it.”
He added: it might “obviously be a blow for the team if Max were to leave.”
Pérez denied any data of an exit clause in Verstappen’s Red Bull contract, which is ready to run by way of to the tip of 2028 however has been the topic of intense hypothesis as half of the continued controversy.
“I don’t have that clause,” Pérez stated. “I don’t know what clause Max has in his contract, it’s better if you ask him. I think Max, as far as I know, has a contract with the team and is fully committed with the team.
“And the rest, I think it’s not for me to comment, nothing to do with me.”
The Australian Grand Prix is ready for Sunday. There are two follow periods scheduled for Friday and one other on Saturday earlier than afternoon qualifying.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Associated Press)
