On Sunday night the Formula 1 world was treated to Sergio Perez’s finest hour at the pinnacle of the sport, delivering his greatest performance in the beautiful race that was the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix.

A race packed with so much drama, starting with the lap one, Turn 4 incident in which Charles Leclerc speared the front of his Ferrari into Sergio’s Racing Point forcing the Mexican to pit for repairs and a tyre change before he was released at the back of the pack.

What transpired thereafter is the stuff of legend in a race which would do justice to a full season of Netflix let alone an episode.

Without a job in F1 next year, the prospect of his absence from the grid is a travesty as, on current form, he is up there with the very best we have in the field today