Red Bull's Helmut Marko piles pressure on Sergio Perez with ‘up to him now’ verdict amid ongoing F1 slump

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has pilled the pressure on Sergio Perez after his latest sub-par performance at the F1 Qatar Grand Prix. 
Marko piles pressure on Perez with ‘up to him now’ verdict amid slump

While teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen dominated the Qatar Grand Prix, Perez endured another weekend to forget. First, he could only qualify 13th for Suꦏnday’s main race on Friday, ওbefore he was caught up in a three-car collision in the following day's sprint race. 

Things did not improve on Sunday for Perez, who was forced into a pit lane start after Red Bull elected to chang༺e his power unit after he picked up e🍒xtensive damage in Saturday’s crash. 

Perez recovered through the field but picked up a trio of time penalties for exceeding track limits which relegated him to 10th place, meaning he left Losail w🦹ith just a single point to his name. 

Over the course of the weekend, the Mexican saw his lead over 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton in the battle for se𒉰cond in the drivers’ championship shrink to 30 points. 

Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19 crashed out of the race. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 18, Qatar Grand Prix,
Sergio Perez (MEX) Red Bull Racing RB19 crashed out of the race. Formula 1 World Championship,…

“The gap [between Verstappen and Perez] is simply too big at the moment because second place in the World Championship is also👍 at risk now,” Marko told ORF after Sunday’s race. 

Despite holding a valid contract for 2024, Ma𒆙rko suggested that Perez’s position at Red Bull is “entirely up to him now”. 

“In general we want to implement the contractual situa👍tion, which lasts until 2024. And that’s entirely up to him🍬 now,” Marko continued. 

“But then we have three relat𝔍ively good drivers in AlꦬphaTauri.”

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo has been tipped as Red Bull’s fir🙈st choice to replace Perez, either during 2024 itself or at the end of the year, if Perez fails to improve&nb🐬sp;his performances. 

Ricciardo’s AlphaTauri teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda is also vying for a Red Bull seat, while168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Liam Lawson is waiting in the wings for a full-time opportunitꦚy after his impres🤡sive cameos as a stand-in for the injured Ricciardo. 

Marko piles pressure on Perez with ‘up to him now’ verdict amid slump

Red Bull t﷽eam principal Christian Horner said he will si🔴t down with Perez after his “horrible weekend” in Qatar. 

"Checo has had a bit of a shocker of a race. He's had a horrible weekend - the incident on Saturday and 🃏unfortunately the three penalties in the race,” Horner told Sky. 

"Without those penalties, he would be a lot further up the points scoring on a day Lewis didn't score, so a miss💝ed opportunity to really try and 𒅌cement that second place.

"We just need to try an﷽d get that form that he showed at the beginning of the season back. We know he'✤s got it within him.

"Nothing has really fundamentally changed that much. He's got into a bit of a spiral and he needs to put the brakes on that, reset and use this period, the twওo weeks to come back in Austin, another Sprint weekend, and really attack it, do the best he can and extract the most out of himself."

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