Sergio Perez says it’s too quickly for him to know if he’ll return to System 1 in future after his sudden departure from Pink Bull on the finish of 2024.
Pink Bull introduced Perez was leaving the workforce simply over per week after the top of final season following a disappointing 12 months that yielded solely 4 podiums. On the time, workforce principal Christian Horner claimed it was Perez’s resolution to take a break from F1, and whereas the Mexican says he’ll take time to research his subsequent transfer, he suggests he was not the one initially seeking to make a change.
“Truthfully, I don’t know,” Perez stated on the Leon State Honest. “It’s too early to let you know, to have a solution. The whole lot occurred in a short time on the finish of the season, so I didn’t anticipate it.
“Now I’m in an unimaginable, dreamy place, which I didn’t even notice I used to be in, so should you ask me now, I don’t know. I’m very proud of my life, very enthusiastic about what’s forward.
“For certain, if I obtain a great, fascinating mission, then I’ll positively take into account it and give it some thought. It is going to all are available its personal time. For now, my precedence within the months forward is to have enjoyable, do what I haven’t been capable of, journey, be with my household…
“Within the subsequent six months I’ll decide on what I need for the following step of my profession.”
No longer getting ready for the beginning of a brand new System 1 season, Perez admits he’s having fun with his newfound freedom and desires to take advantage of not being tied to such an intense schedule in 2025.
“It’s unimaginable, particularly at the moment of 12 months while you’re already eager about the season and you’ll’t do something anymore. It’s actually cool as a result of I’ve been doing this all my life. I’ve been in System 1 for 14 12 months and earlier than that, I’ve been racing since I used to be six years outdated.
“So that is my first 12 months since I can bear in mind the place I can determined what to do. It may be completely different plans, I can go [somewhere], I can verify a visit, I can go along with my household and my youngsters wherever I need. So the reality is it’s one thing that I’m having fun with loads, and I’m actually trying ahead to what’s coming this 12 months.
“The reality is that I’m very calm, very glad, having fun with time with my youngsters loads, with my household, with my mates. And I feel that I’m lastly going to journey as a result of in all these years I’ve traveled everywhere in the world, however with out realizing it. And so now I’m actually trying ahead to touring, to attending to know completely different locations, to do issues that I haven’t completed for a very long time.”
