Red Bull are chasing the wrong Williams signing, Juan Pablo Montoya adamant they should be after Carlos Sainz and not Franco Colapinto.

Red Bull are set to make a shock decision over Sergio Perez’s F1 future according to recent reports. The Mexican star has failed to deliver at Red Bull throughout the 2024 season, but the team retained faith in him following replacement rumours prior to the summer break.

The momentum of 2021 launched Red Bull—but most particularly its wunderkind Verstappen—into a new era of dominance that threatened to bore viewers and undo all of the hard-earned popularity Formula 1 had gained after millions of lockdown-bound viewers tuned into Netflix’s Drive to Survive during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With his F1 future uncertain, Franco Colapinto’s manager has spoken about the chances of him finding a seat elsewhere on the grid. Colapinto was brought in as a replacement for the struggling Logan Sargeant over the summer of 2024,