Red Bull must make a “hard decision” about 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez, they have been told.

Perez’s future as Max Verstappen’s teammate remains a hot topic, especially heading into his home race at the F1 Mexico Grand Prix.

He survived the axe when Red Bu❀ll opted to double-down with the♔ir faith in him, at the mid-way stage of this season.

But, since thꦆen, Liam Lawson has replaced Daniel Ricciardo at RB and could show enough potential to be promo🥂ted straight into the Red Bull in 2025.

“It feels like they want a driver to come in and be quick🤪e🏅r than Yuki Tsunoda,” Jenson Button analysed on Sky Sports.

🌠“But if they get through enough drivers who aren’t quicker than Tsunoda, then maybe Tsunoda should b♏e in the Red Bull seat!

“Last year, if Perez was half-a-second off Max, it was fine because the c꧋ar was so quick.

“Now, he’s P8. So it’s a big issue for the team. It could cost them𝐆 the constructors’ championship.

“They really have to 🐠think about it. At some point the🌃y have to make a hard decision.”

Danica Patrick added: “I would imagine🥃 they are starting to think about that. Maybe even Checo is.

“He can’♔t be having a blast out there. I’m sure he’s ♛getting sick of defending himself.

“Especially being Red Bull, we know the performance is imp🔯ortant. But, look, there is a bu꧋siness side too.

“The team has got to be thinking about it.”

Perez endured another large𓄧ly forgettable weekend at the United States Grand Prix.

He was ninth in the sprint, then qualified 10th for the grand pꦿrix 🥀where he finished in seventh.

With both McLarens far ahead of him, it was a⛦nother blow for Red Bull’s hopes of retaining the cons🍬tructors’ title.

Lawson, meanwhile, started at the back of the grid due to an engine💯 penalty but still scored points on an impressive F1 come🉐back.

Lawson impresses Horner and Marko

Red Bull boss Chr🅠istian Horner said about Lawson♍ to Sky Sports: “It’s a sample of one. He jumped in and looked like a veteran.

“He can be🦹 h𝄹appy, he drove a great grand prix with some great overtakes.

“When you’re upsetting Fernando Alonso, you know that you’r💮e doing sꦍomething right!

“He’s a tough, hard racer.”

Lawson reacted: “Yes, I spoke to Christian and Helmut. They ꦉwere positive, happy, ꦡthey said ‘well done’.

“But that’s the expectation that the🔴y had for me…”

Lawson later assessed his weekend in Texas:&𝕴nbsp;“I think we struggled a꧋ lot and although we made a big step with the car [on Saturday], you never know – in a race it’s completely different, we don’t know if it’s going to work out exactly as we planned.

“So to have a cleꦿar step in quali and in the race with the car is really positive for me.

“I༺ felt really comfortable which was the main target this weekend, to get to the end of it and to feel confident with the car.

“It’s always nice when you’re the overtaking car as well, which today we were, and I think it was just that hard stint at the start that really put us in a🔴 great position.

“[It’s been] just I think me getting more comfortable and the stint with 😼the guys, the team’s worked really, really hard this weekend and we’ve been quite aggressive with changes that we’ve made, potentially more aggressive than you normally would be.

“But they’ve worked really hard for the last couple of weeks get🐬ting me prepared ♈for this, and the guys have worked overtime to get me comfortable.

“And then with the car this weekend as well, it’s just been a big⛄ team effort. I’m very thankful 𓆏for all the work they have done to get me comfortable in the car, and for it to work out like that is always a nice feeling.”