Sergio Perez shows true colours with claim about Max Verstappen’s potential Red Bull exit

Sergio Perez has lived in Max Verstappen’s shadow since the moment he joined Red Bull, but has expressed a desire for the Dutchman to stay amid the team’s internal conflict

Just two weeks ago, the Dutchman threatened to walk away if ally Helmut Marko was forced out of the team. Marko has been going up against team principal Christian Horner in an internal power struggle which has overshadowed a successful start to the new season.

Reflect Sport understands that, on the off chance that it comes to it, Ruddy Bull would favor to keep Horner and would permit Verstappen to take off on the off chance that constrained to choose between them. But the perfect result remains that all their key faculty stay on board.

And Perez is singing from the same song sheet. In spite of living in Verstappen’s shadow for a long time, the Mexican communicated a want to see his team-mate remain when inquired approximately the circumstance ahead of this weekend’s Australian Amazing Prix.

Telling columnists it would “clearly be a blow for the group in the event that Max were to take off”, he said:
“The group is in a really solid position, since with the comes about we’re currently having, the harmony that there’s within the group. I think to attain that it takes a handful of a long time, probably.

“Right presently, the energetic, everybody within the group is working truly well together, the complete designing bunch, it’s truly joined together. And you’ll be able see that on-track, and how productive we’ve been within the final year. So I do not see any reason to alter it.”

As a result of hypothesis over Verstappen’s future, he has actually been connected with a switch to rivals Mercedes. The Silver Bolts are the best group which unquestionably includes a opportunity for 2025, with Lewis Hamilton off to join Ferrari at the conclusion of the year.

Toto Wolff has not squandered the chance to mix the pot and, in Jeddah two weeks back, announced he would “cherish” to sign the Dutchman on the off chance that he got to be accessible. But as much as Verstappen increases in value being needed, the 26-year-old demands he remains committed to his Ruddy Bull contract which runs until 2028.

He said:
“I’m cheerful inside the group and of course it’s very important that we attempt and keep the key players within the team for a longer period of time, as of course that’s where the execution is as well. At the conclusion of the day, it’s a execution trade. It’s the same as if I wouldn’t perform, I wouldn’t be sitting here, so I know how that works.

“But for sure with the bargain in put that’s moreover my purposeful to be here to the conclusion, since it would be a incredible story for me actually fair see it out to the conclusion, since it fundamentally implies I’ve been portion of one family and one group.”