{"id":4166,"date":"2023-11-02T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/max-verstappen-happy-with-sergio-perez-or-daniel-ricciardo-next-year\/02\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T02:49:31","slug":"max-verstappen-happy-with-sergio-perez-or-daniel-ricciardo-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/max-verstappen-happy-with-sergio-perez-or-daniel-ricciardo-next-year\/02\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen happy with Sergio Perez or Daniel Ricciardo next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Triple Formula One world champion Max Verstappen said he would be happy to have either Sergio Perez or Daniel Ricciardo as a teammate next season in comments that did nothing to dampen speculation about possible change at Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>Perez, 33, has a contract for 2024 but his poor form compared to Verstappen&#8217;s dominance of 16 wins in 19 races in 2023 has fuelled of talk about his future.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1102%2Fr1247563_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1102%2Fr1247563_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1102%2Fr1247563_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1102%2Fr1247563_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Red Bull have said Perez&#8217;s future is not tied to his finish in the World Championship standings.\u00a0<cite>Photo by Mark Thompson\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Experienced Australian Ricciardo, 34, was Verstappen&#8217;s teammate in from 2016 to 2018 and his return to the Red Bull fold with AlphaTauri this season leaves him as the favourite to replace Perez.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen told reporters at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos on Thursday that he had a great relationship with both.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been great teammates and it&#8217;s not up to me at the end of the day to make these kind of decisions because I&#8217;m very focused on my own performance,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So if it&#8217;s Checo next year, then great. I have had a great working relationship with him but also personally I think he&#8217;s a great guy. And if it&#8217;s Daniel then also we will get along fine and we have a great time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F1 can be a tough sport. You&#8217;re asking these kinds of questions but maybe also nothing happens right? We will see,&#8221; added the 26-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Ricciardo, who secured AlphaTauri&#8217;s best result of the season when he finished seventh in Mexico last Sunday, told reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/38802085\/ricciardo-no-red-bull-talks-replacing-perez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">there had been no talks with Red Bull about next season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the stuff around my contract next year has been related to AlphaTauri. I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s honestly as far as that goes,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Team boss Christian Horner also insisted after the Mexico race that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/38793873\/sergio-perez-future-not-linked-championship-finish-say-red-bull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Perez&#8217;s future was not contingent<\/a> on whether he can secure second in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Perez is fighting for second place overall and is 20 points clear of Mercedes&#8217; Lewis Hamilton with three races remaining. Red Bull have never ended a season with their drivers one-two in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m confident in Checo [Perez] that he can stay ahead, because I do think that on average we have the faster car,&#8221; said Verstappen.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/38802938\/formula-one-max-verstappen-happy-sergio-perez-daniel-ricciardo-red-bull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple Formula One world champion Max Verstappen said he would be happy to have either Sergio Perez or Daniel Ricciardo as a<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/max-verstappen-happy-with-sergio-perez-or-daniel-ricciardo-next-year\/02\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[427,2666,623,1184,526,102,624,1112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}