{"id":63372,"date":"2025-08-13T06:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63372\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:14:11","slug":"sergio-perez-reportedly-set-to-join-cadillac-candidates-return-to-grid-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/63372\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez reportedly set to join Cadillac, candidates, return to grid, video, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergio Perez is reportedly set to return to the Formula 1 grid next year, with the Mexican driver poised to occupy one of Cadillac\u2019s seats during its inaugural season.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old, who made his F1 debut in 2011, was released from his Red Bull contract last year following a disappointing season for the Austrian team, accumulating 285 less points than teammate Max Verstappen. He was sidelined for the 2025 season after failing to secure a seat elsewhere on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetf1.com\/news\/sergio-perez-set-for-cadillac-f1-2026-announcement\" title=\"www.planetf1.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PlanetF1.com<\/a> reports that Cadillac will announce Perez as one of its drivers for 2026, with an official announcement expected next month. Former Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has also been touted as a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every practice, qualifying session and race in the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship\u2122 LIVE in 4K. New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=f1&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkmotorsport-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-mtr-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" title=\"kayosports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Red Bull Racing's Mexican driver Sergio Perez. Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC \/ AFP\" attribution=\"test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d68e4f4d4f2f7f1171c446a8668a279d.jpeg\" \/>Red Bull Racing&#8217;s Mexican driver Sergio Perez. Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC \/ AFPSource: AFP<\/p>\n<p>The American team will led by Graeme Lowdon, who in March declared that experience would be considered when choosing a driver line-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo we value experience? Yes, you can see that from how we\u2019re putting the rest of the team together \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of very experienced people within the management and operational side of the team as well,\u201d Lowdon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that is important, but, when you\u2019re looking at driver selection, there\u2019s just a whole bunch of things that go into the decision making.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s ability, capability, experience \u2013 but also looking towards the future as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s not the best answer in the world, because it doesn\u2019t give a steer of which direction we may be going in, but it\u2019s the real answer, which is that\u2019s pretty much what we\u2019re analysing at the minute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deflated Lewis says &#8216;a lot&#8217; is going on | 00:51<\/p>\n<p>Last month, four-time reigning world champion Verstappen endorsed his former teammate as an option for Cadillac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheco has always been very strong,\u201d Verstappen said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, he had some difficult moments with us, but as long as he has the motivation to race, I think he is a very good choice, especially for a new team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at his performances at Force India and Racing Point, you will see that he always scored good points there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The F1 season resumes on August 31 with the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergio Perez is reportedly set to return to the Formula 1 grid next year, with the Mexican driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-63372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63372","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=63372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}