The long-standing Formula 1 driver Sergio Pérez no longer has a F1 cockpit in the current season after being released at Red Bull Racing, but the Mexican can still rely on his sponsors. Pérez recently signed a new contract.
When looking at the current difficulties at Red Bull Racing in Formula 1, Sergio Pérez may have smiled one or the other.
His successor Liam Lawson, who was supposed to do everything better than Pérez, failed and was only replaced by Yuki Tsunoda after two Grand’s Prix.
But this too had difficulties at his premiere in Japan, only twelfth, while colleague Max Verstappen won the Suzuka-GP. Meanwhile, Pérez looks around for new motorsport projects, but can also dream of Formula 1.
Either way: No matter how Pérez’s choice turns out, the veteran can rely on the support of one of his large sponsors. Because as Pérez and Heineken recently announced via social media, the Mexican has signed a new contract with the Dutch brewery giant. The 35-year-old is (further) the face of a Heineken campaign for non-alcoholic beer.
“The best driver always chooses Heineken 0.0,” says the posting in a lettering with Pérez ‘counterfei on a huge banner that is artistically placed in a video on a high -rise building. And: “We extend the contract.”
A strong message for the Mexican Formula 1 pilot, which had lost his cockpit at Red Bull Racing at the end of 2024 after four years after he had previously become vice world champion in 2023.
Pérez: Now everyone realizes how difficult the red bull bolide is
The fact that it was no longer the case afterwards also had to do with the general difficulties with the current car in the once dominant team of Verstappen, as Pérez recently emphasized in an interview on the official Formula 1 page.
“Especially last year I couldn’t show what I can do as a driver,” said Pérez there, among other things, after the restoration of Lawson to the Racing Bulls. “I was at Red Bull for so long that everyone forgot how difficult the car is, so it wasn’t easy.”