Sergio Perez’s concession of valuable points is too frequen🦄t, it has been claimed, in a debate about why he was given a new Red Bull deal.

Perez seemingly ended speculation about his future by signing a new contrac♎t to remain alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in 2025.

But 🅷consecutive awful grands prix in Monaco and Canada has reopened the discussion around his suitability in F1’s best car.

Damon Hill told the Sky F1 podcast about Perez’s F1 Canadian Grand Prix: “He has had a mare, an absolute nightm🌜are!

“From looking like he was a few tenths off ౠMax, comfortably up there൲ and able to support him, to the last few races being an absolute catastrophe for poor Checo.

“Slightly self-inflicted🎶 in Monaco but he didn’t qualify well.

“Can it get any worse? Yes it can!

“But let’s hope it doesn’t…”

Perez failed to progress from Q1 at eithe♊r Monaco or Canada🌱, then failed to see the chequered flag in either race.

The timing was ironic given Red Bull ignored other intriguing options to rewar🌞d him with an extended stay in their coveted car.

Perez new deal 'to keep Max sweet'

Naomi Schiff said: “The sentiment seems to be that there is an element of the co꧟ntract being given to Checo to somewhat keep Maཧx sweet, and not put in another driver to take points away from Max.

“We’ve seen teamꦉs with two really quick drivers battling each other on track - Carlos and Charles, Lando and Oscar…

“That can sometimes end badly and take a🅠way points from your drivers and from the drivers.

“So there is an element of that being part of the reason w🃏hy they’ve kept Checo on.

“But, at the same times, with the teams I mentioned, being in the points regularly - there is an elem♌ent of going ‘is Checo not costing his teamꦰ points, if he’s not always in [the points?]’

“I think maybe Canada was unfortun꧙ate, a few things didn’t go his way.

“But I feel like it happens 🍌too often, f▨rom my perspective. I don’t really understand.”

Hill urged ꦛRed Bull to give more help to their struggling driver: “With Checo, they should not worry about Max.

“They nee🦋d to pile in and help Checo, gi𒆙ve him all the support to get him up the grid.

“Becau꧋se that is so valuable to them in the construꦆctors’, and valuable to Max.”

But Schiff asked: “What can they do, to do that?”

Hill answered: “Decision-making, maybe, is part of ꧑itꦺ.

“Making sure he gets a clear lap in qualifyinꦫg. Making sure is on the right tyres at the right ꦐtime.

“Everyone rooting for Checo, making sure he’s able to give the best of 🃏what he’s got. Because he hasn’t been able to do that.

“For whatever reason. It has been bad decisio🧸n-making and bad timing.

“It can’t all be bad luck. You can be u🌞nlucky a couple of💃 times but not all of the time…”

Schiff said: “I was surprised that there was a two-year deal. Although it has come out sinc🐼e that it’s a 1+1 so let’s see how that develops.

“I continue my theory that th꧒ey are trying to keep Mജax happy.

“There are still whispers that there 𝐆is potential Max would go to Mercedes.

“If they signed a driver t⛦o the team that Max wasn’t happy w༺ith - Carlos Sainz, for example, then that could’ve been the decision to push him further from the team.”