168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s Red Bull career could eventually be saved by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen - but only if their star driver quits the team.

The hypothesis about the 2025 F1 driver line-up was mooted on the  podcast.

Perez is fighting for his future at F1’s top team with his contract expiring and a number of rivals eyeing his dominant💞 car.

“Put Max in the eq꧋uation,” L’Equipe journalist Fred Ferret suggested before the Aust🔜ralian Grand Prix.

“He may have to leave, at one point.

“If he leaves Red Buꦡll, things are very different.

“Then, I would say, that Ch🦩eco's seat is saved becaꦰuse you need someone with the legacy of driving the old cars.

“This is some🎃thing you need in your mind for 2025 an💟d later.”

But Natalie Pinkham replied: “I would be absolutely a⛦mazed if Max left for 2025. I could see potentially '26, with the engine change.

“Perhaps he knows something that we ♏don't about how far advanced Red Bull area, in that area.

“It would be staggering to walk away from 🥃this roღcket ship of a car in '25!”

Ferret asked: “Did you bet at Christmas that Lewis Hamilꦬton would go to Ferrari?”

Pinkham answered: “But we're talking about walking away from a totally dominan♚t car! We're not talking about walking away from a Mercedes.

“Say he's got t൲his year sewn u🍨p, his fourth [title]. He's going to walk away from a fifth?

“It would be ridiculous to.”

But Ferret said: “I am not that sure. Maybe Max, because of Jos and Helmutꦓ and everything, will have to leave.

“I will say that it's a possibility…”

A꧋s it stands, the race is for the second Red ༒Bull seat alongside Verstappen in 2025.

Carlos Sainz, Fernando Alonso, Alex Albon and Daniel Ricciardo are among the drivers to have been linked with the c☂oveted position at various points.

“Perez is doing everything asked of him,💝” Pinkham insi🐷sted.

“He’s bringing it home cleanly in second [in tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚ🌳ᩚᩚhe first two grands prix].

“You can’t fault him. What el♑se is he suppose🍃d to do?

“It feels like there has been a shift. Maybe it'𓂃s too soon to tell. But it feels like there has been a shift in his mind-set as to how he approaches this season.

“Think back to last year. Getting that win in Saudi last year gave him the shot in the arm that he need🥂ed that [a title challenge] was possible.

“We know he is a street circuit speciali๊st. “Suddenly we thought, hang on, game on here! Only to be put back in his box by Max.

“If he comes back into it, this year, with a different mentality he may well drive better. “He may relax. Take the pressur🉐e off.

“He is tenacious, we know that. But sometimes he makes mistak♍es when the presౠsure is on.

“Right now, he is doing enough.”