Red Bull extends contract with Grand Prix Azerbaijan winner

Red Bull will field an unchanged line-up for 2022, after announcing on Thursday that they have decided to retain Sergio Perez.

Report informs, citing foreign media, that Perez has made a strong start to his first season with a top team, first scoring a front row slot in his second Grand Prix, then taking four top-five finishes in his first five races, and clinching his first win for the team in his sixth in Baku.

His points haul of 104, just four short of Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas, has been key in helping Red Bull take the fight to Mercedes in the constructors’ championship, with the team just 12 points adrift of the reigning world champions ahead of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.