Red Bull boss Christian Horner hinted that Sergio Perez’s future with the team may be in doubt, but the Mexican driver remains confident that he’ll be racing next year.
After Perez’s last-place finish at Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix, Horner told reporters, “As a team, we need to have both cars scoring points and that’s the nature of F1. 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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Perez, 34, was asked about further comments from team advisor Helmut Marko that cast doubt on the veteran driver’s future with the Red Bull team.
Article continues after this advertisement“Well, I know I am (going to be here). That’s all I can say,” Perez said, per F1i.com.
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Article continues after this advertisementPerez was looking forward to this weekend’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix and getting past his disastrous home showing in Mexico City.
“What happened, it’s in the past. We move on, and we take those first 10 laps as a hope,” he said. “We understood what happened in qualifying, we saw issues, we tried to fix it for Sunday, and I think we went in the right direction so that’s definitely promising.”
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