Perez picked up two separate five-secoဣnd time penalties for running Lecler🌼c out of road at Turn 4 and Turn 6 respectively.

The Mexican recove🥀red to fifth on track but dropped to sixth after his two penalties were applied, putting him behind Carlos Sainz.

Perez’s race was immediately compromised early on after he was run wide by Lando Norris at Turn 4, putting the Red Bull🧸 driver in the gravel as he dropped to tenth.

“Itꦗ’s lap one and over the limit,” Perez said when explaining his battle with Norris. “Lando got away, he didn’t have any 𝔉damage but I basically had my race ruined afterwards. Yeah, I got some damage from the gravel I guess.”

“With Charles, we were running in dir💟ty air, a lot of traffic, very old tyres and just braking as👍 late as possible, running out of road and ending up with contact. I will have to review all of the incidents to be honest.

“That’s not the way I like to race. I am extremely sorry if I affe꧂cted the race of Charles because that’s not the way I do my racing.”

Perez revealed tha𝓰t he has alrea🐈dy spoken to Leclerc about the incidents.

“Yeah I spoke to him and explained what happened from my side but obviously it’s not eno♐ugh. I don’t feel comfortable with m꧅yself knowing that I ruined a race of another driver. I will say I have to review the incidents and move on.”

The stewards handed Perez four penalty points for the two incidents, bringing his total for the 🦩12-month period up to eight.