The Red Bull driver struggled for pace and could only qualify fifth at Suzuka, while teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen stormed to a dominant pole with a lap tha𝓰t was 0.773s quicker thanꦺ Perez’s effort. 

Perez acknowledged Verstappen had done a “tremendous lap” but reckons he could have joined the Dutchman on the front row if h𒉰e had an extra set of new soft tyres for Q3.&nbs🍌p;

"Max has been very strong,” Perez said. 

"I mean, when we see the difference that he is making, he's definitel𒁃y had a tremendous lap. Well don𝓡e to him.

"Defin🌱itely the front row was in the car today because [using] that second set in Q2 was not ideal. 

“𒅌And that put us on the back foot to the McLaren mainly by 💞just having one set of new tyres, so that was not ideal.”

Speaking to the official ♒F1 website, Perez admitted he has felt “two steps behind” Verstap꧋pen all weekend in Japan. 

“It was hard. We did struggle through the weekend,” t𝕴he Mexican explained✨.

“We kind of were always two steps behind an𒅌d we just couldn’t get the entry stability I was looking to get over a single lap.

“But come race day I think we are looking a lot better. I think that tomorrow is going to be su⛄ch a degradation tyre battle that hopefully tomorrow we can still be able to do a one-two.”

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said Perez has been unable to match Verstappen th💖rough the high-speed corners. 

“He’s slightly under the car compa𒉰red to Max in those high-speed༒ turns,” he told Sky. 

“He’s closed the gap in high-speed turns but Max keeps moving it. But P5 for C✤heco, I think he’ll have strong race pace, we saw that yesterday so I think he’ll be okay in the rac🌌e.”