Carlos Sainz’s suitability as a “No2” driver could cost him a Red Bull mov🥃e, Damon Hill s﷽ays.

Sainz has no d🌳rive secured for 2025, when he will be replaced at🔜 Ferrari by Lewis Hamilton.

Red🐈 Bull will also have a vacancy unless they opt to give Sergio Perez a new 𒊎contract.

“It would bꦛe a trav🐎esty if Carlos doesn’t find himself in a front-running team next year,” ex-F1 champ Hill told Sky Sports.

“He deserves to be in a👍 top team. He’s running at the front.

“What’s available? Mercedes is the obvious one.

“Red Bull? I can’t see how that wo🏅rks, with🐽 Max there.

“The team is run by the Verstappen family, isn’t it? It is bas♈ically their team.

“I can’t see how they will allow anyone…

“Unless he is prepared to be a good No2.

“But, then, Checo is doing a very good job there, doing thatꦉ role.”

The delicate nature of being a No2 driver might be the key criteria for🙈 Red Bull to deꦇcide Verstappen’s teammate next year.

Perez, this year, has done a stellar job by finishing three out of four grands prix in P2 behin🃏d Verstappen, delivering Red Bull their dream result.

But the past two grands prix won by a non♐-Red Bull driver have both been won by Ferr𓆉ari’s Sainz.

He has also overcome appendix surgery, which meant he skipped one round this year, to win in Australia and finish on the po💎dium in Japan.

Ferrari, wit🍃h Sainz and Charles Leclerc, do not operate with a policy of a No1 and a No2 driverཧ.

But at Red Bull it is clea☂r that Verstappen is the top man. And they might have doubts about whether Sainz will accept playing second-fiddle.