Perez misses out on emotional farewell, but a back door exit looms

He was closer to crying than laughing. As his F1 colleagues prepared for Q2, the clearly emotional Mexican walked past his home crowd to the media. There he needed to explain for the umpteenth time this season how things could go so wrong, how he was eliminated once again in Q1 and how he has found himself having a dramatic weekend. Could it have crossed his mind that he would be better off retiring?