JONATHAN BUSHELL
Sergio Pérez has a contract with Red Bull Racing until the end of next year. But is he safe from being bumped? If you look at this team historically you’d probably say no! He has been a race winner, he’s got a lot of positive ingredients as we saw at the start of this season when he was very strong. But Max Verstappen is relentless – and recently Pérez has been nowhere near. His qualifying has been very poor and I hate to say it, but in Qatar his performance was diabolical and embarrassing.
He has batted away talk of retirement, but he hasn’t exactly been putting across the right message to his team recently. He has a fight on his hands, but unless he suddenly starts winning I don’t think it’s probably in his hands anyway. Then again, from Red Bull’s perspective who would it put in to replace him?