“Get-out clause" claim leaves Red Bull door ajar for Alex Albon

Claim emerges that Alex Albon co🌸uld return to Red Bull thanks to a "get-out clause"ꦯ in his Williams contract.

Alex Albon
Alex Albon

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Albon has a “get-out clause” in his Williams contract that w🦩ould enable him to return to Red Bull, it has been claimed.

Sky Sports F1’s pitlane reporter Ted Kravitz revealed the information during🐻 the broadcaster’s latest 𒅌.

Albon was dropped by Red Bull at the end of 2020 after struggling to match 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s performances. His replacement was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez, who now looks set to lose his seat for 2025.

Afte෴r a year on the sidelines as Red Bull’s reserve driver, Albon secured a full-time drive with Williams for 20🌄22 and has rebuilt his reputation over the past three seasons.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson, who replaced Daniel Ricciardo at RB for the final six races of🍒 2024, is expec♐ted to take Perez’s seat at Red Bull.

But Kravitz believes it is “the wrong🔯 decision” and instead feels Albon would be the better bet.

“I think Alex Albon actually, strange as this might sound,” K😼ravitz said. “I think an engineering, which I🐲 don’t think would have taken much of a lever, to get  Alex Albon out of Williams.

“Williams could have run Franco Colapinto and Carlos Sainz, perfect, a❀nd Alex Albon, at least, would have been a known measure against Max Verstappen.

“Albon is so much older and wiser⛎ and knows how to handle Max and the whole situation and I don’t k🐭now why they haven’t done that.”

Albon signed a mu🍸lti-year contract extension with Williams earlier this year. 

Kravitz went on to reveal that "as I understand it, there is a get out clause in Albon’s Williams contract that basically allow🎉s him to leave if Red Bull come knocking again.”

‘Absolutely clear’ Perez is out

Kravitz claims the decision about replacing Perez for next season was made at the Qatar G🍷rand Prix - the penulꦡtimate round of the campaign.

Perez’s woeful performances last season were a factor in Red Bu♉ll slipping to third place in the constructors’ championship behind McLaren and Ferrari.

“For me it was absolutely clear after the race in Qatar,” Kravitz added. “When Christian Horner brought the constructors’ championship standings on a piece of paper in his post-﷽race press briefing with the🀅 media.

“Now you always know what’s in Christian Horner’s head with what piece of paper he brings to his pressꦅ briefing on a Sunday evening after the race.

“After Mexico, he brought in the telemetry of Lando and Max and what corner and why he felt the two ten second penalties for Max were hars🌜h.

“And then, completely unprompted I think, he brings in the constructors’ stand🎃ings which of course have all tꦚhe points which Sergio Perez didn’t manage to score for the team.

“When you look a♈t the points Max scored, this [constructors’ trophy] should really be at Red Bull. The reason it’s not is Sergio Perez’s form.

“That’s why Christian Horner brought the constructors’ standings to Qatar and then I think the decision came around Qatar, and ever since�ꦬ� then it’s about how we dissolve the contract and pay him off.

“As we record that🐭 he hasn’t, but he has left the team. And i🐲t’s a matter of engineering it.” 

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