Sergio Perez ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚbatted away any thoughts about retiring after his difficult year.

The Red Bull driver ha🐽s been under scrutiny for the 🔜entire campaign, with his race seat at constant threat.

He also faced criticism for his performance in the RB20 before the car’s limitations becam൲e clearer when Max Verstappen also started struggling.

Perez told about walking away from For🍰mula 1: "These last six months I thought about it, but it took me three seconds to make the decision.

“In the end, it would be the easy 🅷route, after so many years, to leave and in a way give up.

“I would never have forgiven myself for it.”

Red Bull placed t♒heir faith in Perez to retain his race seat at the mid-way stage of this stage, a courtesy which was not extended to RB’s Daniel Ricciardo.

But the arrival of Liam Lawson at RB now provides a fresh contender to replac🐭e Perez in the senior team in 20🐠25.

Perez insists that he doesn’t want to be fo꧅rced o🧸ut.

"I wan🤪t to finish my career when I want and not when someone tells me to,” he said.

“That is my main f🎃ocus: to get to the point where 𒈔I can decide my future.

"For now I am very motivated, the truth is, I really want to continue in F1🥂. I enjoy it.

“Especially the good moments you enjoy a lot, but you alꦯso learn to enjoy th🌊e bad ones.

"For now I have two more years on my contract, and two year𓆏s in F1 is a long time, but I know that the end is getting closer.

"I don't see myself running here like Fernando Alonso, for example, whom I admire a lot for eve🌊rything he does at his age.

“It's not that I♎ wouldn't like to, but because I have small children and I want to spend a lot more time with them. At the ꧟end of the day, they will be the limit."

Perez is 34 and, although he has a contract for nex🍨t season, he must come back firing at the United States Grand Prix to warn off any threats tꦉo his seat.