At last....
Yeah, I'm getting news of Perez leaving with immediate effect. Lawson(rumor) looks like to take his seat. Again, this is the rumor.
Perez: 4 series seasons - 5 wins total and 3 poles. The numbers from Max = Perez utterly getting crushed. 49 points in 18 races of late. Thats rather bad actually. He should have been gone in August/Summer break. He can race again and is marketable. He might make even more money being out of F1.
Sportune announces that Red Bull is immediatly losing the $40M yearly contract from Telmex, Perez' sponsor.
At last his pain...and ours...is over. I would have chosen Tsunodo over Lawson. Tsunodo seems hungrier and willing to do whatever it takes to prove he deserves the seat. He is a fighter and wants to win and prove himself to the F1 world.
Horner and Marko as well as all Red Bull management prefer Lawson since they are worried that Yuki might blow a fuse or three and let his infamous temper get in the way of a team order: "Yuki, Max is faster than you." "No, never! Banzai!" I have the perfect solution; a Prozac injection triggered by a button on Horner's pit wall console;-)
I maintained a slim hope that they’d somehow lure Alonso away from Aston. This dream was driven almost entirely by the media/social media potential of having F1s “villains” team up WWE-style.
Bottas, Hulk, Sainz = good F1 racers compared to Yuki or Lawson for a top team. RedBull so called driver management is soap opera-esque! Why not Albon as well.
Maybe Horner had to pay some out of his own pocket or had his bonus reduced lol. As a friend who is an F1 lubricants engineer said last night - Employee removed today because their boss is a failure! Red Bull's decision to drop Perez raises questions about the decision-making of Horner, who made the decision in May to sign him until the end of 2026. The move came at the start of a slump in form from Perez - which echoed a similar decline in 2023 - and Horner said the intention was to allow him to recover his confidence. But Perez's performances did not improve. He took his final podium in the fifth race of the season in China and after finishing fourth at the following race in Miami, his best result was a sixth place in the Netherlands. His one highlight for the remainder of the season was a strong performance in Azerbaijan, where he was on course for a podium finish before a late crash with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz. Perez's inability to get close to Verstappen's performances was a significant factor in Red Bull losing the constructors' championship. They finished third behind McLaren and Ferrari, despite Verstappen's nine victories. McLaren took six wins between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Ferrari five with Charles Leclerc and Sainz. Horner re-signed Perez - giving him a two-year extension that seemed inexplicable to many in F1 - rather than taking Sainz, who is being replaced at Ferrari next season by Lewis Hamilton. The basis for the decision was the tension that existed between the Verstappen and Sainz camps when the drivers were paired at Red Bull's junior team in 2015 and early 2016. But Verstappen's father Jos Verstappen said he had never expressed a preference for Sainz not to rejoin Red Bull.
Lawson promoted to replace Perez at Red Bull Red Bull announces that RB youngster Liam Lawson will graduate to main squad in 2025
https://www.crash.net/f1/feature/1061653/1/after-red-bull-f1-2025-snub-what-next-yuki-tsunoda seems like Lawson wins.
Lawson has been erratic in the few races he´s done, I think he´s unprepared for this job. The good news is that Pérez set the bar so low that nobody will be asking a lot. Also Tsunoda is erratic despite having more experience so I get the rationale behind the decision. It´s a gamble with not too much to loose.
Well being Max Verstappen’s teammate at Red Bull is the most difficult job in Formula One right now.. I’m really happy they didn’t hire Hadjar instead because it would have been dramatic for him..
