2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button believes Red Bull will have no choice but to replace 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez if his poor form continues.

Perez has scored points just twice in t♔he last five races in what𓆏 has been a sensational dip in form.

The Mexican struggled once again at Silverstone as he was knocked out in Q🌠1 before finishing wel🧔l outside the Top 10 - he was lapped twice in the process.

Pere꧅z’s lack of form means Red Bull’s position at the top of☂ the constructors’ championship isn’t entirely secure.

With McLaren emerging as a regular race-winning outfit, and have two drivers capable of sco𝐆ring big points, Red Bull’s lead could come under threat in the second half of the year.

Speaking ov💃er the British GP weekend on Sky Sports’ F1 coverage. Button describ🐼ed Perez’s performances as a “massive issue”.

“Massive. It’s a massive issue,” he said. “This was a terrible weekend. It was unluck🌊y in some ways. This isn’t going to happen every weekend.

“McLaren taking that many points🎉 out of them? It’s big. And Mercedes didn’t have two cars that finished, but if their reliability was there, again it would 💎have been a big chunk taken out of Red Bull.

“They are on the back foot, they are the third-highest scoring team at the moment, over the past 𝄹five or six races. He needs to be scoring some points, at least, even if he’s not finishing behind Max.”

Button - who was teammates with Perez at McLaren in 2013 - believes Red Bull will have to replace him if Pe🔯rez’s n🐠on-scores continue with two more rounds before the summer break.

“They 🅠can’ꦅt let it go on forever. If at the next race he isn’t scoring points again? Soon enough they’ve got to get him out of the car, and put someone else in,” he added.

“It’s tough. I know it’s not a nice feeling for a driver, it’s horribl🃏e. But for them, the constructors’ championship is important.”

Red Bull handed Perez a new two-year deal ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix - a surprising move given he 🏅had struggled in the pr💜evious two rounds.

However, reports have since emerged that there are a number of performance clauses in Perez’s contract which allow Red Bu♍ll to make a change should they want to.

Former W Series driver Naomi Schiff is perplexed that Perez’s new contract didn’t hand him a boos😼t of confidence given his future with the team until 2026 is s🦋ecure.

“Not only because it’ဣs more competitive, but because the Red Bull is less dominant than it’s been in the past,” she explained. “Max is having to out-drive the potential of the car, and Checo hasn’t been able to do the same.

“We saw the same last year. What I don’t understand is why a contract extension woul♉d not give him more confid𒆙ence. Last year we felt he was over-driving to prove himself. He’s not having to do that.

“There will be performance clauses, for sure. 🦂They made the decision to keep him, that should have given him confidence, not taken the toll it has taken.”