Perez only maꦑnaged 11th in qualifying at the Losail International Circui♎t - the first time he hasn’t made Q3 since Zandvoort.

Tyre preparation is a key aspect in F1 with teams keen to complete their outlaps as slow - or in some cases fast - as possible to ensure the tyres are in the right window f🃏or the duration🎃 of the lap.

Perez felt that Red Bull’s new approach didn’t work as his tyres weren’t up to temperature when he s༺tarted his🌳 final lap in Q2.

“We changed a bit our approach with our tyre prep,” he said. “We probably didn’t get on top of it come quali and then we weren’t able to have clean outlaps most of the time and that meant going into sector one I was pretty low with the tyres and the gri𝔉p.”

When asked about 💜the specific changes Red Bull has made, Perez didn’t want to give too much away: “It’s a lot of things in the backgroundꦓ. I will have to go into too much detail but in general I think that’s probably what cost us a bit.”

The Mexican is adamant he’d have been 𒁏in the fight for the top three had he ♛safely made it through to Q3.

 “Yes, definitely, we’ve been ther♋e all weekend so I see no reason to why we shouldn’t have been there today,” he added.

With overtaking likely to be very difficult in Sunday’s race, Perez an♉ticipates it will be a “tricky” afternoon from 11th on the grid.

“It’s going to be a tricky race tomorrow, it’s not going to 𓄧be an easy one but we will give it all.”