While Pérez signed a new contract with the team ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, reporting indicates that the contract allows for Pérez to be moved into an ambassadorial role.

Even in the throes of a miserable run of form to end what he has labeled a “terrible” Formula One season with Red Bull, Sergio Pérez’s outward confidence about his future has never been shaken. On Thursday,

The president of Formula 1’s governing body denied ordering a recent wave of staff dismissals that included the removal of the race director with three events remaining in the season.

FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem has told Formula One drivers to mind their own business after they asked where money from race fines was going and why senior figures had left the governing body. In an interview with Reuters ahead of Sunday's Qatar Grand Prix,

A defiant FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem has dismissed talk of turmoil within the governing body, and told Formula 1 drivers it is “none of their business” how he runs things. Ben Sulayem has found himself under the spotlight recently in the wake of a host of high-level departures from the FIA – which has included F1 race director Niels Wittich.