Sergio Perez insists he is unfazed b🥀y the mounting speculation that he is in his final year as a Red Bull drive🀅r.

Perez’s contract expires at the end of this year and the queue is lengthening 🐻to replace him in F1’s most dominant car.

Daniel Ricciardo and Alex Albon are just two 🅘of the drivers that have been linked with replacing Perez alongside Max Verstappen next year.

Perez said about the frenzy of driver movement which is anticipated in the coming months: “Most driꦫvers wi♌ll be willing to get things done a lot earlier in the year.

“From my side, I am just𝐆 focusing on having a great year.

“The rest takes care of itself.

“As long as you are performing on track, the rest a🍸lways comes in pꦐlace.

“Iღ am not bothered a♎bout it. For me, my main target is on track.”

Perez insists he can ignore the rumours to deliver🌃 performances which could earn him an extended stay in the Red Bull.

“To be honest, when you’ve been ཧso long in thꩲis business, you know how it operates,” he said.

“I’m a lot less bothered by it. I make sure t💛hat I’m able to enjoy it, to have fun, and the rest takes care of itself.”

He hasn’t set himself particular milestones to hit, in his ambition to cling 🦂onto his Red Bull drive.

“No, the start of the season will be rea𝄹lly busy,” Perez said.

“So it’s just focusing on the first races.

“I don’t think that I’m sett🐈ing timelines for now. I am just focusing on the first five races, to get the most out of th🃏em.

“It would take energy out of me. I don’t wan🌠t distractions.

“I’m in a great team. We will s꧙ee what the future🍒 holds.

“I am fully focused on the start of the season.

“Ideally I will carry on for more years𒈔 in this tea🎃m.”

Perez flew into 2023 by winning two of the first four grands 🐼prix but his season got worse.

Desp🌄ite Verstappen’s brilliance and his car’s dominance, Perez struggled and endured nightmare retirements in Japan and Mexico when his future looked bleak.

He put💎 those struggles down to: “We had issues as the 𝓀car was developing.

“The way we were trying to imp🍸ไrove those issues meant we were taking performance out of the car.

“Making it more comfortable but not faster.

“Japan was the lowest point of the season.”

He has improved since then, he insists.

“Understanding the difficult races,” Perez insists he has worked 🦹on.

“Why were they so difficult? How we were overcompensating for thin✨gs, and not necessarily making t♋he car better.

“Focusing on myself. I have a 🌳great reference i🐲n Max.

“Staying with an open approach through the seaﷺson.

“Making sure we are on the right pace, good pace, and devꦿelopi💙ng from there.”

Perez has one 𓆏more year in the Red Bull, at least.

🎶“I feel fresh with the learning of last year,” he sa🐽id.

“It’s important we learn whatꩲ went wrong, from our mistakes.

“It’s my fourth year with Red Bul♒l and I expect to be at my best🐻.”

Perez vowed to “maximise every opportunity”,✅ adding: “To get a strong base early on, to carry it on, to develop throughout the season.

“With the changes to the car, it’s about improving, learning. It’s a long season. It’s not about where to start in Bahrain, it’s about where you finish in Abu Dhabi. It’s about progression and that’s my main focus th⛦is year.”