Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 podcast with Matt and Tommy.

We are currently backstage just before our Manchester live show to essentially react to the groundbreaking news that is Sergio Perez leaving Red Bull, maybe leaving

F1. We don't know. Lots to dive into Tommy. We've spoken about him a lot over this year and this

season, I think quite rightly because of his performances, but it's finally been announced because

there was still a little bit of is it going to happen or is he somehow

going to dig his heels in? Well, we did literally a podcast four or five months ago. Now you can see it

back saying Perez is staying till the end of the year and of course he did that now infamous tweet of

I'm not leaving from the Wolf of Wall Street. But yeah, it has come to an end. We've been waiting

for that news, haven't we, for a long time now, we've kind of, you know end we've been waiting for that news haven't we for a long time now

we've kind of you know we've been doing our shows for the last week essentially and feeling

like it's going to happen any moment and now officially we know that he will not be there with

red ball exactly they've agreed to part ways we've had no news about who will be replacing him as of right now, as of recording. I'm sure whilst we're recording, we'll get news or we'll miss something. But I guess the first thing is we have to dive into our initial thoughts. As I kind of joked about in the start, it's not surprising that he's left Red Bull now. I think for the team, it's the right

decision. But it's now what does the team do from here that, in my opinion, shows whether

they've learned from the last three drivers that have gone up against Max Verstappen and whether they've

sort of decided to find a trend in why they've all essentially failed against

Max Verstaff and of course Gazley's picked himself up so is Albon whether Peros will continue in

F1 we don't know but from the Red Bull side this next choice is very important especially with the

car seemingly falling away from being the fastest. It is absolutely.

I mean, you know, it's a shame that if this is the end of Perez's career, it's ended in

this way that, you know, we said with Daniel Ricardo as well, you know, it seems could

even be a quite a similar situation where neither of them wanted to essentially

say they're being announced because there was all these rumours with Perez that they were very

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