{"id":61190,"date":"2025-08-12T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61190\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T08:19:08","slug":"major-sergio-perez-change-backed-as-sign-of-possible-f1-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/61190\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Sergio Perez change backed as sign of possible F1 return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A close ally of Sergio Perez has highlighted a personal change that could signal the Mexican&#8217;s intent to return to the F1 grid.<\/p>\n<p>Perez departed the field at the end of the 2024 campaign following a difficult campaign with Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old has insisted he is interested in a return to the field, but only if it is with a project he believes can be successful.<\/p>\n<p>Cadillac has listed Perez as a major candidate for one of its drives next season when it joins the grid as an 11th team.<\/p>\n<p>Xavi Martos, a fitness trainer who has long worked with Perez, called attention to the work the six-time race winner is doing behind the scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I watch as a spectator, but people have never talked about this,\u201d Martos told Duralavita.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSergio has a new manager, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard. He used to work with Julian Jakobi, but now he has someone else.<\/p>\n<p>Perez is said to have teamed up with Khalil Beschir, who has experience as a former driver, but now focuses on managing drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that answers all the questions,\u201d Martos added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wanted to stop racing, you don&#8217;t take on a new manager. At least that wouldn&#8217;t have occurred to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close ally of Sergio Perez has highlighted a personal change that could signal the Mexican&#8217;s intent to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-61190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","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","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}