Hasty renewal?
The contract renewal just signed with Red Bull until the end of 2026 (but with the 1+1 option to the advantage of the team) it seemed like an ‘umbrella’ useful for protecting Sergio Perez from rumors and criticism at least for a while. However, the Mexican driver has outdone himself – in a negative sense – in the last few races and has remained at the center of media attention. Eighth in Imola and retired in Monaco and Canada: Checo has collected just four points in the last three GPs.
The former Racing Point driver has long been criticized for the insufficiently brilliant results he achieved at the wheel of a single-seater which instead, driven by Max Verstappen, repeatedly breaks records and records. This last series of three races, however, is particularly worrying for the #11 from Milton Keynes also from a statistical point of view. In fact, since he has been a Red Bull driveri Perez had only once, in 2021, experienced a worse three-game series than this one in the same season.
Never this bad since 2021
It had happened precisely in his debut year with the Austrian team, when between Silverstone, Budapest and Spa he was always finished out of the points or retired. There, however, they had also contributed to the flop external factors, like the bumper car caused by Bottas in Hungary and the ‘farce’ race in Belgium. Even in the last championship, during the disastrous period of races between Singapore, Suzuka and Qatar, five points were lost.
At this point it becomes for Perez It is imperative to be able to reverse the trend as early as the next appointment, scheduled for Barcelona. Even if the Spanish GP were to end with a negative result, Red Bull could really start to wonder if the contract renewal turned out to be the right move.
