Pe🐎rez was eliminated from qualify♛ing 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 taꦍke a fresh engine. 

Perez blamed track evolution in Q1 being greater than expected as well 🃏as traffic fo꧃r his poor qualifying at Zandvoort.

“A bit too many things happಞened,” 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 wꦆe didn’t manage to complete the lap.

“I think we missed out bཧy a second and a half or something like that. It’s extremely frustrating as we dꦉefinitely 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 juওst a massive blow for us. Tomorrow it’s going to be a very hard one but I look forward to try and scor🦹e something, minimise the damage tomorrow.”

Perez revealed thaওt he left 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 p൲lenty 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 𝕴Horꦑner felt Perez’s out-lap was simply too slow.

“I think his out-lap was just that littl🎐e bit slow, s𒀰o frustrating because obviously, we shouldn’t have a car out in Q1,” Horner told 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 to start that ﷽lap. Unfortunately, he’s missed it by about a second, very frustrating.”