He told the Daily Star in 2023: "The [2011] season went really well, but I didn’t sign the contract because it seemed obvious that, having been with Red Bull for six years – for me, it was obvious, anyway – that doing what we were doing, beating my team-mate and getting the car into the top eight consistently, it was good enough to secure my place at Red Bull seat in 2012, because we thought Mark Webber was leaving.
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He made his debut for Toro Rosso – the name of Red Bull’s junior team at the time – at the age of just 19 years and 125 days in 2009.
While Sergio Perez, who endured a wretched 2024 season, has become the latest driver to be culled by Red Bull, he was far from the first to suffer such a fate, and he probably won’t be the last.
However, Mark Webber’s decision to stay in F1 for one more season left Alguersuari with nowhere to go.
