Perez declared that \u201cno driver can survive\u201d at Red Bull<\/a> while Verstappen is present inside the squad and steering influence on the car’s development.<\/p>\nIt’s a message that Perez conveyed to Horner when the decision was made to part ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you so much for everything,\u201d Perez said when asked what his final message to Horner was, as quoted by motorsport.com.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I’m very sorry for anyone who comes here, because it will cost them a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horner himself would only last a handful of months within the team as he found himself ousted as team principal midway through the 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n
Perez was forced onto the sidelines for the current season but has already secured a drive for 2026 with the new Cadillac team.<\/p>\n
Despite his shaky end to his term with Red Bull, Perez declared the decision to cut him loose was a positive one.<\/p>\n
“What happened with Red Bull, in the end, I knew it was the best thing that could have happened to me,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause being at Red Bull and the conditions I found myself in were very demanding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd all the drivers who have arrived and those who will arrive will continue to have the same problems because it’s a very complex car to drive, where you have to constantly adapt to Verstappen’s style.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez has provided an insight into the final chat he had with former Red Bull team boss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-323519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}