Sergio Perez batted away any thoughts ♔about retiꦉring after his difficult year.

The Red Bull driver has been under scrutiny for the entire campaign, with 💯his race seat at con♑stant threat.

He also faced criticism for his per💖formance in the RB20 before the car’s limitations became clearer when Max Verstappen also started struggling.

Perez told about walking away from Formula 1: "These last six months I thought about i🍌t, but it took me three seconds to make the decision.

“In the end, it would be th🐟e easy route, ꦛafter so many years, to leave and in a way give up.

“I would never have forgiven myself for it.”

Red Bull placed their 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 arriv꧋al of Liam Lawson at RB now provides a fresh contender to replace Perez in the senior team in 2025.

Perez insists that he doesn’t want to be f🦩ꩲorced out.

"I want to finish my career when I want and no💃t when someone tells me to🌄,” he said.

“That is my main focus: to get to the point wher🐼e I can decide my future.

"For now I am very moti🧸vated, the truth is, I really want to continue in F1. I enjoy it.

“Especiaꦇlly the good moments you enjoy a lot, but you also lear🎃n to enjoy the bad ones.

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

"I don't see my🃏self running here like Fernando Alonso, for example, whom I admire a lot for everything he does at his age.

“It's not that I wouldn't like t🃏o, 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."

Pere🅷z is 34 and, although he has a contract for next season, he must come back firing at the United States Grand Prix to warn off any ꧙threats to his seat.