Dec.20 (GMM) Sergio Perez’s subsequent transfer in motorsport might already be imminent, sources have advised an authoritative Spanish sports activities newspaper.
With the Mexican driver and Crimson Bull agreeing to finish his 2025 contract, 34-year-old Perez is claimed to be pocketing about $16 million – reportedly the complete price of his agreed retainer.
His father, Antonio Perez Garibay, says Perez is certainly closing the F1 and premier motorsport door for now.
“I’m positive that the door to Method 1 shouldn’t be closed for Checo if one thing excellent and large comes alongside,” he advised Mexican broadcaster N-plus Foro.
“I don’t suppose Checo will go to a crew like Sauber or Haas. Checo will both signal a contract with an enormous crew, or the door is closed. No Indycar, no Nascar, no Le Mans. I’m one hundred pc positive of that.
“That’s the reason I’m telling you that if there isn’t any large crew, then Checo has already achieved his final race. Every part in life has a starting and an finish, and you need to study to stay with it.
“For the second, what Checo has to do is consider having fun with his household, as a result of it was a few years, many sacrifices, and that needed to finish at some point and that day is at the moment,” Perez senior added.
Nevertheless, Marca sports activities newspaper cited sources near Perez as revealing that the Mexican has really been negotiating for a number of weeks with a top-level world endurance championship crew.
The report stated Perez’s obvious plan is to pick key WEC races, together with Le Mans.
“Perez has no intention of retiring from motor racing, not even from the highest class,” defined correspondent Marco Canseco. “In response to what we have now discovered, the Mexican is in very superior negotiations to change into a WEC driver with probably the greatest groups within the high Hypercar class.
“He’s finalising an settlement with Ferrari and thus returning to his origins, as he was within the Ferrari academy earlier than arriving in F1 with Sauber,” he added.
