Sergio Perez believes he would have embraced a career in law or finance had his efforts in the motorsport arena been unsuccessful. The 31-year-old Mexican rose through the junior ranks and stepped up to Formula 1 in 2011 with Sauber with the help of his backers, which included Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. Perez's two-year stint with the Swiss outfit was followed by a move to McLaren in 2013 that did not yield the expected results. He left the Woking-based outfit after a single year to join Force India for a seven-year residency that concluded with him winning his maiden F1 race in the penultimate round of the 2020 season in Sakhir. But Perez's future in the sport looked bleak at that...
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