Sergio Perez may comply with Daniel Ricciardo out of the Pink Bull exit door except he improves shortly, fears David Coulthard.
Perez has scored just one level up to now two grands prix mixed, as Pink Bull have fallen behind McLaren within the constructors’ championship.
A late crash in Azerbaijan whereas he was difficult for a podium was unlucky, however Perez adopted it up with a colorless P10 in Singapore.
“He did brilliantly in Baku however one swallow doesn’t make a summer season,” David Coulthard assessed for Channel 4.
“One good end result will not be what you anticipate. He’s clearly the No2 driver in that staff.
“There was a lot reduction off the again of Baku. Right here, it was again to actuality.
“If he doesn’t get strong factors for the rest of the yr then, like Daniel Ricciardo, it seems like he’s on the best way out of the door.
“It might be the identical scenario for Perez.”
Ricciardo’s lack of type for RB this season means he will likely be changed by Liam Lawson for the rest of the season.
Perez averted being changed on the halfway stage, and obtained further backing from Pink Bull.
However with McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri every working on the entrance at each spherical, Perez’s lack of factors has induced a difficulty for Pink Bull within the constructors’.
Max Verstappen’s P2 in Singapore, behind Norris, supplied some respite for Pink Bull.
“They got here with a set-up which was based mostly across the difficulties they’d final yr. It didn’t work,” Coulthard analysed.
“They reverted to one thing a bit extra of their window of operation.
“Max was brilliantly able to extracting a lap which secured them the entrance row. Perhaps it may have been totally different if Oscar hadn’t had his difficulties.
“However the stopwatch doesn’t lie. The grid was it was. Second was the most effective they might hope for.”
