Perez struggled for pace𓄧 all wee💦kend at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as he qualified eighth, just under a second shy of Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen.

The Mexican spent the first ha🐈lf of Sunday’s race🦄 stuck behind Daniel Ricciardo, before overtaking him around the outside of Turn 1.

The Red Bull driver finished fifth, behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in what♐ was an uninspiring weekend for Perez.

Reflecting on the race, Perez said: “Yeah of course it is frustrating but given oওur poor🅘 day yesterday I think that was everything we could have done today. Took me a long time to get past Daniel, he was extremely quick on the main straight, and it is not an easy place to get past people.

“Yeah, was a good move. I knew 🐲I had to do it, somehow I was thinking for the whole race how I’m going to make it and at the end made it work.”

Perez conf🌊irmed the shoulder issue he had b💛een suffering from in qualifying didn’t affect him in the race.

He trailed teammate Verstappen by 48 seconds 🃏ಞat the chequered flag and Perez admitted it’s simply taking too long for him to adapt to the RB16B at the start of each grand prix weekend.

“Yeah I think it’s important t🎐o keep mak𓂃ing those steps and put the whole weekend together,” Perez added.

“It just takes me a bit too long to get up to speed when we got on a new circuit, the full Friday I’m adapting my style and not there with the car yet, you see things are coming, but not together, but I think once we put them together definꦿitely we have the pace to be able to go pretty quick.”