Perez was eliminated from qualifying after a slow 🌱out-lap in Q1 meant he failed to start his final flying lap.

The Mexican is expected 🐟to start from 16th on the grid, although there’s some suggestion that Red Bull will use this opportunity to take a fresh engine. 

Perez blamed🎐 track evolution in Q1 being greater than expected as well a🧜s traffic for his poor qualifying at Zandvoort.

“A bit too many things🧸 happened,” Perez said. “I think our cut-off wasn’t expecting this track evolution that we had in Q1. We probably carried a bit too much fuel for that first run then we were monitoring the lap times from other people then we realised that we were a bit of a mess and 𝄹we didn’t manage to complete the lap.

“I think we missed out by a second and a half or something like that. 💦It’s ex⭕tremely frustrating as we definitely had the pace today to lock the front row. I think I was progressing well, I was feeling more comfortable as the run was progressing.

“It was just a massive blow for us. Tomorrow it’s going to be a very hard one but I look forward to t🌠ry and score something, minimise the damage tomorrow.”

Perez revealed that he lef﷽t the pit lane with two minutes on the clock so with a lap of Zandvoort just over a minute, he thought that he had enough time in hand.

“It was getting a bit messier with the cars that I had to let through,” he explained🌠. “Probably I could have gone ab it earlier but I didn’t know how critical it was at the time.

“We left the garage with two minutes🍨 so we got plent෴y of time. People making the gap in the pit lane… so a lot of factors that putting them all together that we lost our lap.”

Team boss Christian Horner felt Pe🧔rez’s out-lap was simply to🤪o slow.

“I think his out-lap was just that little bit slow, so frustrating because obviously, we shouldn’t have a car out in Q1,” Horner t🐟old Sky Sports F1.

“It’s such a short circuit but, you know, 20/20 vision, we should have sent him out a little earlier. But yeah, certainly a quicker out-lap. He had enough space t♕o start that lap. Unfortunately🔯, he’s missed it by about a second, very frustrating.”