Sergio Perez will stay Max Verstappen’s Crimson Bull System 1 team-mate after the summer season break, Motorsport.com understands.
The Mexican’s future was one of many subjects mentioned on Monday in a gathering of the crew’s administration, together with crew principal Christian Horner and advisor Helmut Marko.
However whereas there was no official final result of its crew assembly, Motorsport.com understands Horner has addressed the crew’s employees at its Milton Keynes manufacturing unit saying Perez might be within the automotive when the 2024 season resumes with the Dutch Grand Prix on the finish of August.
Alongside team-mate Verstappen, who scored seven grand prix wins to date, Perez has discovered it a lot more durable to wring efficiency out of Crimson Bull’s RB20.
And with Crimson Bull’s tempo benefit disappearing, Perez’s enduring struggles since Might have opened the door for McLaren to mount a title problem, with the Woking-based squad transferring to 42 factors behind within the standings.
After one other troublesome Sunday for Perez in Belgium, during which he dropped from second on the grid to eighth earlier than being promoted to seventh following George Russell’s disqualification, his probabilities of remaining with the crew appeared to dwindle, nevertheless it seems the 34-year-old has now been handed a lifeline to show round his type.
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Talking on Sunday night, Horner mentioned: “What’s irritating is that no person desires to see Checo battle. Everyone desires to see him succeed, as a result of it hurts seeing him within the state of affairs that he’s in.
“No person desires to make that call, clearly you guys discuss it each day. However within the crew we need to get him going.”
After one other irritating race, Perez mentioned he was completed addressing incessant rumours about his future.
“I believe we’ve an excessive amount of happening within the crew and a whole lot of issues that we’ve to deal with, and we can not waste any power with all this hypothesis,” he mentioned.
“That is the final time I’ll converse in regards to the future, so simply to make it clear for everybody, I can’t be talking anymore. I can’t reply any extra questions in regards to the future.”
