Making his first public look since his departure from Purple Bull, Sergio Perez reckons that he’ll use the following six months to guage his choices and alternatives for the long run.
After months of hypothesis, Purple Bull confirmed after the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that Sergio Perez would go away the Austro-British outfit regardless of the deal that might have seen the 34-year-old driver race for the crew till the top of 2026.
The Guadalajara-born driver joined Purple Bull in 2021, and helped his team-mate Max Verstappen win his first championship title that yr, taking part in a pivotal function on the title-deciding 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Nonetheless, he has didn’t ship a constant efficiency during the last couple of years. Perez has gained 5 races with Purple Bull, and completed second within the Drivers’ Championship final yr, however he has endured durations throughout which he merely struggled for outright tempo in qualifying.
After a robust begin to the 2024 season, Purple Bull had elected to increase his contract by an extra two years which might see Perez race for the Milton Keynes-based outfit till no less than the top of the 2026 F1 season. Nonetheless, the Mexican struggled for tempo after his contract extension.
Perez made his first public look since his departure from Purple Bull on the Feria de Leon occasion within the Mexican state of state of Guanajuato. The Mexican reckons that he’ll now use the following six months to seek out out what he needs to do sooner or later.
“Within the subsequent six months I’ll decide on what’s subsequent for my profession. I’m completely pleased, and I’ll return to System 1 if that’s what makes me happiest.”
Perez insisted that he has already confronted a sequence of setbacks throughout his profession, and he has all the time managed to seek out the precise step that moved him ahead. The Guadalajara-born racer now needs to take pleasure in his time together with his household earlier than committing himself to a brand new mission.
“The essential factor is that I by no means gave up. Every time one thing tough occurred in my profession higher issues got here and that was as a result of I by no means gave up.
The six-time F1 race winner continued: “I am very enthusiastic about what’s to return this yr and I am very calm and really pleased.
“I’m actually having fun with my youngsters, my household, my associates. I’m lastly going to journey, as a result of in these years I travelled all around the world, however with out realizing it”.
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