After qualifying third in Friday qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps, Horner was heard congratulating Perez over team radio, to which the 🅰Mexican replied: “ah, you will talk to me now.” 

Horner then responded: "I will talk to you. I said to you top five, mate.༺ You've blitzed it."🎶 

Asked about the radio exchange following Sunday’s grand prix, in which Perez finished second behind Red Bull teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen, he said: "It was a joke. 

“He [Horner] came before qualifyin🔯g and said ‘if you're not in the top three, I will not ꦿtalk to you the rest of the weekend’.

“So 🙈he was talking to me the rest of the weekend.” 

ꩲThe joke was a reference to Perez’s recent torr🤪id qualifying form that had seen him go five weekends on the trot without reaching Q3. 

Perez finally brought that run to an end🦩 at the Hungarian Grand Prix but could only qualify ninth, before recovering to third with what Horner describ🍌ed as a “statement drive”. 

Perez enjoyed a stronger weekend in Belgium, despite a DNF in the Sprint Race following a collision with Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, to register his best qualifying 💎and race result since Miami. 

However♚, a comprehensive defeat to a charging Verstappen in Sund🐼ay’s grand prix leaves him trailing the Dutchman by 125 points in the world championship. 

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko said that Perez had 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“woken up from h🎃is world championship dream” followi🍎ng his recent string of setbacks that have enabled Verstap🍌pen to streak clear in his bid to win a third consecutive drivers’ title.