The bodyguard was injured during the incident which occurred in the Ladrón de Guevara neighbourhood in the muni🅘cipality of Perez’s home town Guadalajara on Saturday.

Local media initially reported❀ the attempted car theft and Perez confirmed after qualify🌳ing at the Monaco Grand Prix that the situation is “thankfully” now under control.

Perez said the se🐈curity guard is recovering well in hospital following the unsuccessful attempt to steal one of the cars belonging to his security. 

“They hurt one of my security guys with one s🔴hot,” said Perez. “They basically tried to rob the🌱 car.

“Nothing else going on, he’s in good condition. And the poli꧋ce got the robbers.”

Perez also revealed th🅷at his family are safe and🍸 were not involved in the incident.

The Mexican qualified ninth for Sunday’s race during an incident-🃏filled qualifying session in Monaco, while Red Bull teammate Max Verstappen will start from second on the grid🐼.

"It was a disaster," Perez said of his qualifying session. "We changed our approach, we were makinꦛg good progress through qualifying, Q2 we did♔ a good step.

"But the track was cooling down and we chan꧂ged our approach into Q♛3 run one, which I had no front end at all, the tyres were very cold, then the second attempt the lap was going well until I hit a lot of traffic and basically lost a lot of lap time going through them.

"It’s Monaco and we know that it is not possible to make a lot of ground around this plac♌e, so hopefully we are able to do it, strategy wise and so on it is ver🥂y very difficult. We’ll see what we are able to do."