Sergio Perez will stay Max Verstappen’s Purple Bull Method 1 team-mate after the summer time break, Motorsport.com understands.
The Mexican’s future was one of many matters mentioned on Monday in a gathering of the staff’s administration, together with staff principal Christian Horner and advisor Helmut Marko.
However whereas there was no official consequence of its staff assembly, Motorsport.com understands Horner has addressed the staff’s workers at its Milton Keynes manufacturing unit saying Perez might be within the automobile 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 Purple Bull’s RB20.
And with Purple 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 shifting to 42 factors behind within the standings.
After one other troublesome Sunday for Perez in Belgium, through which he dropped from second on the grid to eighth earlier than being promoted to seventh following George Russell’s disqualification, his possibilities of remaining with the staff 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 stated: “What’s irritating is that no person needs to see Checo battle. Everyone needs to see him succeed, as a result of it hurts seeing him within the scenario that he’s in.
“No one needs to make that call, clearly you guys discuss it every single day. However within the staff we need to get him going.”
After one other irritating race, Perez stated he was completed addressing incessant rumours about his future.
“I believe we now have an excessive amount of happening within the staff and a whole lot of issues that we now have to give attention to, and we can’t waste any power with all this hypothesis,” he stated.
“That is the final time I’ll communicate concerning the future, so simply to make it clear for everybody, I cannot be talking anymore. I cannot reply any extra questions concerning the future.”
