Williams and Aston Martin Are Reportedly Keeping a Close Eye on Sergio Perez
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Sergio Perez is technically under contract with Cadillac through 2027. That hasn’t stopped two other teams from quietly keeping his name in their back pockets.
Per RacingNews365, the rumor of a possible Perez departure from Cadillac gathered momentum at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where Williams, Aston Martin, and Alpine were all identified as potential suitors.
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Each team has its own reasons for sniffing around – and none of them are particularly flattering about their current situations.
Williams Has a Retention Problem
Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon are both solid names on paper, but neither has delivered results worth celebrating in 2026, largely because the car hasn’t given them much to work with. And that’s reportedly pushing both drivers to weigh their options.
A team whose drivers are already mentally shopping themselves around is a team with a problem that goes beyond lap times.
If Williams can’t hold onto Sainz or Albon, they’ll need a credible replacement with experience, name recognition, and the kind of patience that comes from having driven for a team that wasn’t always winning. Perez, who spent years as one of the grid’s most reliable points scorers at Red Bull, checks all of those boxes. Whether he’d view a Williams seat as a step up from Cadillac is a separate question.
Aston Martin’s Alonso Problem Is the Real Story
The more compelling situation is at Aston Martin. The Silverstone squad had fully expected Alonso to finish his F1 career with them, but his growing frustrations in 2026 have made a move to Alpine a genuine possibility.
Lawrence Stroll invested heavily to build a title-contending team, bringing in Adrian Newey and locking down a factory Honda engine deal. But his spending hasn’t been able to drag them out of their current hole.
After the first seven rounds of the new regulations era that Aston Martin had banked on, Alonso has collected just the one point, inherited from a P10 in Monaco.
While Alonso has stayed composed publicly, he is understood to be “really boiling over behind the scenes” at the factory, and that private frustration may ultimately be what sends him through the door.
Alonso hasn’t made a final call on his 2027 plans and is reportedly waiting until after the summer break, hoping Aston Martin’s promised upgrades – including what amounts to a largely revised chassis – will change the picture.
Meanwhile, multiple sources have told PlanetF1.com that Flavio Briatore and incoming Alpine title sponsor Gucci are pushing hard to bring Alonso back to Enstone for 2027.
That’s where Perez enters the frame for Aston Martin. Alonso’s contract expires at the end of this season, and with most of the drivers currently sitting higher up the grid already locked in elsewhere, Aston Martin would likely turn to Perez – who also has an existing working relationship with Adrian Newey from his Red Bull days.
For his part, the Mexican has publicly maintained his commitment to Cadillac, where he is signed through a two-year deal.
The Mexican driver has shown flashes of promise with the new outfit, coming closest to points during the European leg of the season, finishing tenth on track in one race before a post-race penalty dropped him back to P15.
None of this means he’s going anywhere. But the fact that two teams with genuine needs are apparently watching him carefully suggests his stock hasn’t dropped nearly as far as his 2024 Red Bull exit might have implied. The 2026 driver market is still very much unsettled – and Checo is quietly relevant again.