has revealed what ’s subsequent transfer shall be after confirmed 2024 season.
The Mexican endured a as he completed – a mammoth 285 factors behind teammate and champion .
The 34-year-old’s sub-par performances finally price Crimson Bull the constructors’ title as within the last race of the season, due to Lando Norris’s
Crimson Bull to the top of the 2025 season originally of June however that finally meant little as they determined to chop bait with him, ending his run of 14 straight seasons on the F1 grid.
And Crimson Bull boss Horner has now defined what Perez will do forward of the 2025 marketing campaign, with no different seat lined up.
“Checo has been a incredible member of this crew, it’s been a troublesome 12 months for him, however he’s an amazing individual and performed a key function in 2021 drivers’ championship,” Horner informed Sky Sports activities.
“We sat down and mentioned it final week. He’s determined to take a little bit of trip, take a sabbatical from System 1 basically. He’ll nonetheless be concerned with the model and the crew. However he’s stepping again from driving duties shifting ahead.
“We’re unhappy to see him go away the crew. It’s time for him to spend time along with his household and mirror on what he desires to do for the long run.”
Horner was inevitably requested whether or not he regretted the contract extension handed out over the summer time that basically marked the start of the veteran’s decline.
“On the time he’d had 4 podiums in 5 races, it was a logical extension to take away hypothesis, of which there was already an excessive amount of across the crew,” defined the crew principal.
“Each contract has efficiency clauses and standards, it didn’t make any distinction to this choice for Sergio to step away and take a sabbatical.”
Horner did acknowledge that Crimson Bull most likely ought to have received the constructors’ title given Verstappen’s dominance and that the hole between him and Perez proved essential.
“Look, I feel… shoulda, coulda… would have,” stated Horner. “In hindsight, McLaren did an amazing job. However on the finish of the day, we received extra races, we had extra poles, we received 4 dash races, greater than some other crew, and we received the drivers’ championship with two races to go.
“Sadly we had a 280-point deficit between our drivers, after all that grew to become fairly costly when it comes to the constructors’ championship.”
Consideration will now flip to Perez’s alternative to accomplice Verstappen subsequent season with the choice seemingly being a straight shootout between Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson – each of whom at the moment drive for Crimson Bull’s feeder crew RB.
Carlos Sainz was additionally in the marketplace at one stage, after Lewis Hamilton was confirmed to be changing him at Ferrari, however Horner dismissed the notion that his crew ought to have moved for the Spaniard earlier than Williams pounced.
“Look, Carlos is a superb driver, we’ve seen that,” admitted Horner. “However you must take a look at all the varied standards and dynamics, on the level of Checo’s new contract, he was second within the championship and ending on podiums in 4 of the primary 5 races.
“Now, now we have the entire info we’d like, it will be a selection between Yuki and Liam and each have gotten sturdy credentials. We examined Yuki just lately in Abu Dhabi, had an opportunity to work with the engineer crew, whereas Liam has examined loads with us and pushed effectively. Contemplating all of that. We’ll conclude within the coming days.
“An important factor for us, to verify now we have two drivers performing as intently as potential. We’ll have a Hamilton and Leclerc line-up [at Ferrari], Norris and Piastri [at McLaren], we have seen what that is able to, George Russell with one other newcomer in Kimi Antonelli [at Mercedes] – it will be very tight subsequent 12 months. What’s the greatest line-up we are able to area?”
