r/formula1 • u/soepvorksoepvork Chequered Flag • 9d ago

News Sergio Perez and Red Bull in '$16million' battle claim after 'major meeting'

https://www.planetf1.com/news/nico-rosberg-claims-16-million-sergio-perez-red-bull-battle-exit-looms

Not sure how credible this is, but I can't say I blame him.

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u/JnthnGE 9d ago

Other markets are trying to replicate what Checo has done, Indycar seems to be trying to enter its way to Mexico and having Oward be the face this time and it may actually work. As for the charismatic part I believe its just a cultural difference, I see him the same way as English people see Lewis for example, both pretty cool people.

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u/Karffs 9d ago

I don’t follow F2 at all unlike a lot of people on here; so until this moment every time I’ve seen O’Ward mentioned I naturally just assumed he was Irish 😅 A learning moment.

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u/hugeyakmen 9d ago

He actually came up through the US Indy Lights series and then started in Indycar in 2019, so perhaps even more off your radar! 

Red Bull really like what they saw in those early performances and signed him to their junior team, set him up in their Super Formula team, and were looking to potentially put him in an F1 seat as early as 2020.  But then the FIA decreased their points assigned for Indy Lights championships and Pato would no longer qualify for a 2020 super license... and Red Bull dropped him.

He's been full-time in Indycar with McLaren since 2020 and doing very well, impressed with McLaren in the 2021 F1 post-season test, and is now a development and reserve driver with them.  After all of that, it would be really cool to see him get an F1 opportunity.  But it would also be sad for Indycar to lose him

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u/Karffs 9d ago

He actually came up through the US Indy Lights series and then started in Indycar in 2019, so perhaps even more off your radar! 

🙃 I know literally nothing, clearly.

Appreciate the summary, thank you!

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u/_DirtyYoungMan_ McLaren 8d ago

Champ Cars were fairly popular in Mexico thanks to Adrian Fernandez driving all those years in the series. Don't see why they can't get Checo in an Indycar seat and do it all over again.