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Sergio Pérez announces that he either signs for Red Bull or takes a sabbatical

Mexican Racing Point driver Sergio Pérez.
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The Mexican Sergio Perez (Racing Point), which faces its tenth season in the Formula One, announced this Monday, at a press conference that took place in Bahrain – which next weekend will repeat and host the penultimate Grand Prix of the season, again on the Sakhir circuit, or becomes a pilot of Red Bull in 2021 or, if not, he would take “a sabbatical year.”

‘Checo’, born 30 years ago in Guadalajara (Jalisco), and of which it was reported a few months ago that in 2021 he would not continue in a team that will be renamed Aston Martin and in which the German will replace him Sebastian Vette informed that “plan A would be to race in Red Bull, which already announced that it will not announce anything until after the end of the season, and, if it were not, plan B would be a sabbatical.

The brave driver from Guadalajara won his ninth podium in Formula One three Sundays ago at Istanbul Park, finishing second in the Turkish Grand Prix. And on Sunday he was about to add his tenth ‘drawer’, which avoided a real misfortune, since, with three laps to go to finish a race, in which he was riding comfortably in third position, burned out the engine of his Racing Point.

“If I am not in Formula One next year I want to take that time to think about what I want to do. I have options to return to the F1 If I return to a good project; or if I no longer want to continue in F1, “explained Pérez, who missed the two races at Silverstone (England) due to positive covid-19 and who, before leaving Bahrain, was the only one, along with the English Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – already mathematically seven-time world champion – who had scored points in all the races he had contested this season.

Due to the breakdown of his engine, ‘Checo’ had to give fourth place in the World Cup to the Australian Daniel Ricciardo (Renault), which has 102 points, two more than the Mexican, in the absence of the last two races of a contest that will conclude on December 13 in Abu Dhabi.

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