Red Bull’s F1 2025 driver options: Sergio Perez, Daniel Ricciardo and more in the frame to join Max Verstappen?
It may still be some way out, but there’s already intrigue about what Red Bull will do with their second seat in 2025; Assessing Daniel Ricciardo’s early steps back in F1, the state of play for Sergio Perez, and who else could be on their radar for two seasons’ time
It may still be some way out, but there’s already intrigue about what Red Bull will do with their second seat in 2025; Assessing Daniel Ricciardo’s early steps back in F1, the state of play for Sergio Perez, and who else could be on their radar for two seasons’ time
It’s unusual to see the starting gun for a particular race seat fired so early and so publicly but that’s what effectively happened for 2025 when Daniel Ricciardo returned to the Formula 1 grid last month.
Back with AlphaTauri for at least the rest of this season after seven months on the sidelines, the ‘dream’ seat Ricciardo referred to is one at Red Bull’s senior team next to Max Verstappen.
The one that was once his and is now Sergio Perez’s.
It’s unusual to see the starting gun for a particular race seat fired so early and so publicly but that’s what effectively happened for 2025 when Daniel Ricciardo returned to the Formula 1 grid last month.
Back with AlphaTauri for at least the rest of this season after seven months on the sidelines, the ‘dream’ seat Ricciardo referred to is one at Red Bull’s senior team next to Max Verstappen.
The one that was once his and is now Sergio Perez’s.
But Ricciardo, who over the past year has experienced some of the harsher realities of life as an F1 driver to go with the many spoils that a career as an eight-time race winner has brought, also acknowledged: “This sport is not about fairy-tales, it’s about performance.
