Christian Horner already knows Red Bull's next drivers and puts three names on the table

Christian Horner insisted Red Bull had plentifulness of operator options, including George Russell, aft being challenged by Sky Sports F1's Martin Brundle

Christian Horner insists helium already knows Red Bull’s adjacent imaginable drivers arsenic unit mounts connected Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez.

Ricciardo is wide expected to beryllium dropped from the sister RB team aft the Singapore Grand Prix, with Liam Lawson acceptable to instrumentality his spot from the United States Grand Prix. Meanwhile, Perez’s presumption has been scrutinised for overmuch of the play and it is not definite helium volition spot retired the twelvemonth alongside Max Verstappen, fto unsocial support his spot for 2025.

Red Bull person had a revolving doorway erstwhile it comes to drivers, with galore large names going done their system. Some are inactive successful F1, similar Carlos Sainz, Alex Albon and Pierre Gasly.

Others, similar Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat, dropped disconnected the grid. Another, highly-rated Formula E ace Antonio Felix da Costa, ne'er adjacent made it to F1. Sky Sports’ Martin Brundle reeled disconnected immoderate of those names arsenic helium challenged Horner astir Red Bull’s brutal operator strategy, suggesting they person been near with a weaker line-up arsenic a result.

“It is simply a precise bully question,” said Horner up of qualifying successful Singapore. “We person fixed a large accidental to galore young drivers, immoderate who you mentioned there. The Red Bull strategy does request show and does request results.

“Of course, Max is delivering. Checo has been underperforming this year, but past twelvemonth helium did a bully capable occupation to decorativeness 2nd and triumph america the Constructors’ Championship.

“We request to look further down the road, we person got immoderate large talent. We person got Liam Lawson connected the bench. We are not rather sure, looking astatine the likes of [Franco] Colapinto, [Oliver] Bearman and [Kimi] Antonelli, is helium astatine that level? Time volition tell.”

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Horner highlighted 2 young drivers successful their stable. He besides insisted Red Bull would beryllium prepared to look extracurricular of their operator pool, intriguingly naming George Russell, whose Mercedes declaration expires astatine the extremity of 2025, arsenic a imaginable target.

"We person got Isack Hadjar successful Formula 2, who until precocious was starring that championship,” helium said. "We person got a precise promising endowment that I americium peculiarly excited astir successful F3 successful Arvin Lindblad.

“We person got batch of extent successful our inferior programme. We person got a spread present but we conscionable privation to instrumentality clip to see what those options look similar for the future.

"We're not acrophobic to spell retired of the pool. George Russell is retired of declaration astatine the extremity of adjacent twelvemonth and it would beryllium foolish for america not to take that into consideration. There are different talented drivers who could good beryllium retired of declaration arsenic well."

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