Daniel Ricciardo: Sergio Perez’ Mexico disaster may cause Christian Horner to consider Aussie return

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Daniel Ricciardo: Sergio Perez’ Mexico disaster may cause ********** Horner to consider Aussie return

A disastrous weekend for the Red Bull Racing Team at the ******** F1 Grand Prix has reinvigorated calls for Australia’s superstar driver, Daniel Ricciardo, to be brought back into the fold.

Local hero and top-flight team driver Sergio ‘ Checo’ Perez produced one of the worst qualifying and race performances in recent memory in front of his home crowd in Mexico, with F1 fans and pundits moving quickly to remind ********** Horner and the RB powerbrokers that they may have axed the wrong man.

World title holder and Red Bull top **** Max Verstappen was sanctioned out of the race after incurring a 20-second penalty as a result of his battle with McLaren’s Lando Norris during the opening stages of the race.

But that disappointment has been secondary to the abysmal effort from team-mate Perez who finished a woeful P17 (last of the remaining runners) following his Q1 exit on Saturday and a five-second penalty for a false start.

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Deputy editor of leading Formula One website GP Fans, Dan Ripley, can’t see a way forward for Perez and believes Horner must ***** the bullet and reinstate Ricciardo to bring some order back to the team.

“Whatever nonsense is going on with Sergio Perez at Red Bull, it needs to end and it needs to end now. It’s one thing to be out of form and off the pace of Max Verstappen, but it’s quite another to be dropping clangers every other week to the point that even the basics are becoming a troublesome task for the ********,” Ripley wrote hours of the ******** GP.

“Going out of Q1 in a Red Bull should already be an eyebrow-raising level of ******** but to then follow that up by picking up a five-second penalty for a false start is just unforgiveable.

“Not only is it time to promote Liam Lawson to Red Bull for an end-of-season feeler for 2025, but it’s also time to bring back Daniel Ricciardo at RB.”

Ripley’s cohort at GP Fans, Matt Hobkinson, posed the question: Would Red Bull have fared better with Ricciardo in the second seat and not Perez if that had been the decision from Red Bull instead of the ***********’s sacking in Singapore?

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“The F1 champions might as well be called Oracle Max Verstappen Racing at this stage such is the pointlessness of Sergio Perez in the RB20,”

“Checo is a lovely guy and I have no ill will against him whatsoever, but if the Red Bull hierarchy were willing to ditch Daniel Ricciardo mid-season, then I have no idea why Perez is still with the team.

“Much like a marriage that has slowly but surely run out of love, the team would be kinder to just front up to things and call it quits, than let it drag on for yet another year in the hope that they can turn things around.

“Besides, there are much more appealing options out there for the team.”

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