Perez eyes podium return with new team

Race winner Sergio Perez reckons he can get back onto the Formula One podium with Cadillac, even if the sport's newest team will likely also be the slowest when they debut next season.

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Sergio Perez, right, and Cadillac team CEO Dan Towriss during the Mexican driver's signing ceremony in August.

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The Mexican and his Finnish teammate Valtteri Bottas are not short of experience, with a combined 527 starts and 16 grand prix victories, but at 36 both will be returning from an involuntary year on the sidelines.

Perez, dropped as Max Verstappen's Red Bull teammate at the end of 2023, has 39 career podiums and sees no reason why he cannot take his tally to 40 before he finally calls it a day.

"Yes, I think so. I really believe it," the former Sauber, McLaren and Force India/Racing Point driver told Reuters from Cadillac's Silverstone factory where he was having a seat-fit for the team's 2026 car.

"I think I've been on the podium with all the teams I drove for, except McLaren," he added.