Crash.net's Lewis Larkam was in Spa to witness Sergio Perez's difficulties
After enjoying his best qualifying performance since the Chinese Grand Prix in April,had the perfect opportunity to ease some of the pressure heading into F1’s summer shutdown.
But when pressed by Crash.net on how long Red Bull are willing to give Perez to turn things around, Horner largely side-stepped the question, responding: “I think that’s he’s acutely aware that we need both cars performing and which is what we had at the beginning of the year. And that’s where we need to get back to.”
A reported performance clause in Perez’s contract, signed only last month, is believed to give Red Bull the power to replace Perez if he fell more than 100 points behind Verstappen in the championship after Spa. If Red Bull opted to make a change, the obvious contenders to take Perez’s seat would either be Daniel Ricciardo or Yuki Tsunoda, who drive for Red Bull’s sister team RB, or reserve driver Liam Lawson.
“It’s a filming day, so they’ll be filming. It’s all about content,” Horner explained. “It is in the current car because you can do 200 km in the current car. So they’ll both be doing plenty of filming.”
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