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

Ho🏅rner 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5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen, he said: "It was a joke. 

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

“So he was talking to mꩵe the re🧜st of the weekend.” 

The joke was a reference to Perez’s recent torrid qualifying form that had seen him go five weekends on the trot wit🥀hout reac🧜hing 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 described as a “sܫtatement drive”. 

Perez enjoyed a stronger weekend in Belgium, despite a DNF in the Sprint Race following a collision with Mercedes’ 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton,🔥 to register his best qualifying and race result si𒈔nce Miami. 

However, a comprehensive defeat to a chargi♉ng Verstappen in Sunday’sℱ 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5最新开奖结果:“woken up from ꧒his world championship drea💯m” following his recent string of setbacks that have enabled Verstappen to streak clear in his bid to win a third co💦nsecutive drivers’ title.