Red Bull brutally sacked (Jaime Alguersuari) me in one minute phone call. He later got the reasons for his sacking by the team …
Jaime Alguersuari was brutally sacked by the F1 group in a one-minute phone call – and still doesn’t get it why. Sergio Perez has gotten to be the most recent driver to be separated by Red Bull, having his contract, which was as it were amplified prior this year, cut brief 12 months early.
The hatchet came as no shock after a stunning season for the Mexican, who wrapped up a far off eighth within the drivers’ standings whereas team-mate Max Verstappen took a fourth progressive title. Perez, who has been supplanted by Liam Lawson, joins a long list of drivers who have been casted off by Red Bull over the past two decades.
Whereas he may have few complaints, numerous others down the a long time have been brutally treated – like Alguersuari. The Spaniard already held the crown of F1’s most youthful driver, making his make a big appearance for Toro Rosso – the title of Red Bull’s junior group at the time – at the age of fair 19 a long time and 125 days in 2009. That record presently has a place to Verstappen, who made his to begin with begin at the age of 17.
Alguersuari went through three a long time in F1 from 2009 to 2011, scoring 31 focuses over 46 races. In what demonstrated to be his last season, he frequently surpassed desires, picking up 25 of the team’s 41 focuses.
Those exhibitions justifiably driven him to accept he would be advanced to the most group in 2012, and he turned down a move to the recently shaped Lotus group, where he would have collaborated with Kimi Raikkonen. However, Mark Webber’s choice to remain on for one more season saw Alguersuari cleared out out within the cold and inevitably dropped.
He told the Day by day Star in 2023:
“The [2011] season went truly well, but I didn’t sign the contract since it appeared self-evident that, having been with Red Bull for six a long time – for me it was self-evident, besides – that doing what we were doing, beating my team-mate and getting the car into the best eight reliably, it was great sufficient to secure my put at Red Bull situate in 2012, since we thought Stamp Webber was taking off
Whereas Alguersuari remains thankful to Red Bull for the opportunity they gave him, the way of his expulsion still stings more than a decade on. He said:
“Without Red Bull I would never have had the chance to be in F1.
Jaime Alguersuari amid his last season with Ruddy Bull’s junior group
“But what is additionally precious stone clear is the way they sacked me was not the way they ought to have done it. They held up until the exceptionally final miniature of the season to do that.
“That harmed a part since it was the conclusion of my career. I had talks with other groups, but they were inquiring for cash which we didn’t have. That harmed a part since I did the work inquired of me. I continuously thought, ‘if you get beaten by your team-mate, in case you do not perform, you ought to leave’.
“The thing is, the two drivers who came after us [Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne] didn’t beat our comes about. They updated one of them [Ricciardo] to Red Bull and he at that point came third within the world championship.
“I get it how F1 works, but I do not truly need to purchase how they chosen this, since it was not a donning choice. They played their cards, and I wasn’t shrewd sufficient to move out at the proper time.”
