Horner Won't Confirm That Perez Will Finish 2024 Season: 'Difficult Decisions Have To Be Made'
F1Tuesday, 29 October 2024 at 20:00
Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner wouldn't confirm that Sergio Perez will see out the 2024 season.
During the most recent race weekend in Mexico City, Red Bull Racing lost the second position in the Constructors' Championship to Ferrari and fell to third place.
Jenson Button recently pointed out that the team from Milton Keynes is in a strange position that we might not have seen before. They have a driver who can win the Drivers' Championship, but the team will ultimately finish third in Constructors'.
The main reason for that is that Sergio Perez hasn't been able to score nearly as many points as Max Verstappen. While the Dutchman leads the Championship with 362 points, Perez only has 150.
Although he hasn't finished inside the top five in the last 14 Grand Prix races, Sergio Perez keeps confidently saying that he will 100% race for Red Bull in 2025.
The team principal of the Austrian team, Christian Horner, however, seems like he is on the verge of making a big decision - to replace the Mexican driver.
When speaking to the media following the 2024 Mexico City Grand Prix (where Perez finished in P17), Horner was asked whether the 34-year-old driver would see out the 2024 season, and he replied:
"Look, as I just said, that scrutiny is always going to be there. And there comes a point in time that difficult decisions have to be made."
"We're now third in the constructors' championship. Our determination is to try and get back into a winning position, but it's going to be a tall order over these next four races."
Horner confirmed that Perez will participate in the upcoming sprint weekend in Sao Paulo. However, his words suggest that this might not go for much longer.
"[The scrutiny] is constant, it's always there. So from a team's perspective, we're working with him as hard as we can to try and support him."
"I think we've done everything that we can to support Checo, and we'll continue to do so in Brazil next weekend. But there comes a point in time that you can only do so much."
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