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Experts feel this will be a career-defining year for Sergio Perez. The Mexican driver enters his fourteenth season with only one year of contract left, so in his hands he will have the opportunity to convince Red Bull to sign an extension or leave him off the team, something that could end his career in the Formula 1.
As part of the start of the 75th season of the top category, RECORD was in charge of looking for experts to give their prediction of the performance that ‘Checo’ will have this 2024, they are: Sam Reyes, analyst and commentator of TUDN, Ramón Barrenechea, commentator of Claro Sports and Formula 1 content creator, and Michel Jourdain Jr. Former NASCAR driver and current Fox Sports analyst.
Although everyone agrees that it will be a dangerous year for Checo, they see Red Bull as the favorite team to win everything again, which is why Sam Reyes ruled that ‘Checo’ has the obligation to obtain at least the runner-up position.
“Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez faces perhaps one of the most difficult years in his time in Formula 1, and the first six months will be crucial, because depending on what is going to happen with ‘Checo’ , is how the game of chairs is going to move, His contract ends in 2024 and a lot will depend on how good his results are in this first semester to know if he is going to continue with Red Bull, and this too, would decide if maybe “I could even leave Formula 1.”
“We would like to say that ‘Checo’ Pérez could also finish in the top 3 of the championship, and the obligation is for him to at least finish runner-up again, so that he continues making history in Formula 1 and during his time at Red Bull,” said Sam. .
For his part, Ramón highlights that Pérez Mendoza has fulfilled what the bulls expected of him when they hired him, and that he has everything to get that second place in the drivers’ championship again this season.
“’Checo’ knows, and is the first to understand that what is at stake is not just the renewal with Red Bull, but even a seat in Formula 1 is at stake in a season that will define many things.”
“There are many issues that can benefit him in terms of the media noise about him, but I think ‘Checo’ met his objectives last season, I think Red Bull knows that with ‘Checo’ he achieved what they were looking for, which was 1- 2 in drivers, and who won the constructors’ championship. There will obviously have been ups and downs in the season, but with ‘Checo’, Red Bull had results, the ones they expected, and I think it is very viable that they achieve it this season and they can fight for another runner-up position,” Barrenechea declared.
Meanwhile, Michel, who understands the driving profession, recommends the Minister of Defense to remain calm in the first races and try to get the most points.
“I think it should be another very strong year for ‘Checo’, there are many things we don’t know. From how the tests went the other day, it is clear that Red Bull is still the favorite, but you can never know and be 100% confident until qualifying arrives, and sometimes even in the first two or three races, we saw it with McLaren improving from “from start to finish, and Aston Martin lost against the others.”
“I hope the car lends itself well to him, right now Checo obviously dreams of the possibility of being champion, but there are some things that he doesn’t know, so I think that, if I were him, I would see how the year starts, I would be with my feet on the ground.” land, and I would try to get the most points in each race and see how he is in relation to Max,” shared Jourdain Jr.
Something that the Mexican has to take great care of will be how he approaches the Silly Season, that part of the season in which rumors of signings of the drivers on the grid begin to appear, and which could throw him off.
“It will be crucial that he can handle this Silly Season very well, and that ‘Checo’ can have good results. My prediction will be a lot of work for the Mexican, because we know that since he arrived at Red Bull, the team has been able to achieve the championships that Max Verstappen had been promised so much,” added the TUDN analyst.
“This famous Sillly Season is going to get very interesting because the ‘change of stamps’ is coming, so many drivers are ending their contract, there is a vacant seat at Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton is going to Ferrari, we don’t know what is going to happen with Carlos Sainz , and I think this can be positive for ‘Checo’, because unlike the previous season, the media pressure will not be focused on him,” he concluded.
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