Sergio Perez’s time at Pink Bull Racing seems to be over.
“Pink Bull have determined to maneuver on” after this Sunday’s 2024 Components 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi. Perez failed to complete the Qatar Grand Prix on Sunday after he mentioned his automobile misplaced ahead drive as he tried to speed up for a inexperienced flag.
Perez has struggled mightily this season and his poor kind is why Pink Bull is third within the constructor’s standings regardless of Max Verstappen clinching his fourth consecutive world championship on the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Perez is a distant eighth within the standings — the worst efficiency of any of the drivers among the many prime 4 groups — and his level complete is lower than 40% of Verstappen’s.
Perez, 34, has been at Pink Bull since 2021 and has been Verstappen’s teammate for all 4 of his championships. Perez received 5 races over his first three seasons with the staff and completed fourth, third and second within the standings.
This season he has simply 4 podium finishes and one lap led. His end in Qatar was the sixth time he’s failed to attain factors in 23 races.
Perez has additionally had points in qualifying. After beginning within the prime six in every of the primary six races, Perez’s qualifying kind disappeared because the Pink Bull automobile wasn’t as quick because it had been. Perez has began exterior the highest 10 in 11 races up to now in 2024.
His departure from Pink Bull creates intrigue for the second seat alongside Verstappen. The RB junior staff fields vehicles for each Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson as Lawson changed Daniel Ricciardo in the course of the center of the season. Williams’ Franco Colapinto has proven pace and has additionally been talked about as a risk to maneuver into the Pink Bull household. Nevertheless, Colapinto’s vehicles have sustained a number of crash harm in his temporary time in F1 this season.
Perez has pushed for Sauber, McLaren and what’s now the Aston Martin staff along with Pink Bull in his F1 profession. And a line within the ESPN report raises the chance that Perez’s F1 profession may proceed. Cadillac is about to enter F1 in 2026 and Perez is extremely standard in his native Mexico. Regardless of his struggles this season, Perez could be a coup for Cadillac in two seasons and would even be a powerful advertising and marketing asset.
