Red Bull team principal Christian Horner admitted they could change their driver line-up before the 2025 Formula 1 season starts.
Max Verstappen could clinch the drivers’ championship for the fourth year in a row this weekend. However Sergio Perez has under-performed for much of the season in the team’s second car, leaving Red Bull only third in the constructors’ championship.
Perez has scored just eight points over the last five rounds. Horner said the team need him to contribute more in their effort to overhaul McLaren and Ferrari.
“Sergio is our driver and we want to do the very best to get the most out of him,” Horner told the official F1 channel. “He’s had a really tough run of form over recent weeks and months.
“From a constructors’ point of view, we desperately need both cars right up there working as a pair, which we haven’t had. So obviously, hopefully Checo can get some strong performances in these last three races.
“But there’s no way we’re going to be able to win the constructors championship without that.”
Red Bull placed Liam Lawson at their second team, RB, three races ago. They also have other drivers under contract including Lawson’s team mate Yuki Tsunoda as well as leading junior drivers Ayumu Iwasa and Isack Hadjar.
Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and
The team extended Perez’s contract in June and he has insisted “I, 100%, will be here next year.” But Horner said the teams’ contracts with their roster of drivers gives them options to make a change for 2025.
“All the drivers that we have under contract, we’re very clear on what their contractual situations are,” he said. “We could, if we so chose, leave it all the way up until Melbourne next year [the opening round] if we want to because we have drivers under contract.
“But inevitably at the end of the year, we’ll sit down and look at all the information that’s available to us.”
Miss nothing from RaceFans
Get a daily email with all our latest stories – and nothing else. No marketing, no ads. Sign up here:
2024 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at RaceFans…