In December 2020, Sergio Perez had just become a Formula 1 race winner for the first time – but was on the brink of falling out of the sport altogether.
His Racing Point team, now branded as Aston Martin, had already made the decision to let him go at the end of the year. The Mexican experienced one of the biggest highs of his entire career, and yet it looked like it was all going to come to an end almost straight after.
"The hardest thing is to stay in Formula 1," wrote Perez as he recalled that time in a first-person piece for The Players' Tribune. "I've had some amazing moments, like going back to Mexico in 2015 — my first race there since I'd gotten banned. I'll never forget the love and support I got from the Mexican people that day.
