The under-pressure Perez suffered a hear🦩tbreaking exit to his home race after coming to blows with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc at the first corner of Sunday’s g𒈔rand prix. 

Looking to capitalise on a rapid getaway of♒f the line, Perez attacked Leclerc and Verstappen by attempti🐈ng to sweep around the outside of the pair as they ran three-wide into Turn 1. 

But Perez tangled𝓰 with Leclerc’s front-left wheel, sending his Red Bull briefly airborne and flying off the circuit. He managed to recover to the pits but was forced to re🥂tire with his car heavily damaged. 

Perez admitted with hindsight that he could have backed out of the move but insisted he “just wanted to gไive it all” in his failed bid to snatch the lead of the rac♐e. 

“I mean, I understand because it’s his home🔯 Grand Prix,” Verstappen said in the post-race press conference. “You want to be on the podium, I fully understand that.

“He went around the outside, and he tried. Looking at the footage, I think he could have left a little bit more space, but at the other end if it would have worked, you k🍸now, you look amazing.💮 

“And of course, I think it’s just more like that excitement 🌜of wanting to be on the podium and this time it didn’t work out, unfortunately.

“At the time, I didn’t really see a lot. At 🍰one point, I ju✤st saw that a car was a bit flying in the air, but then I saw the footage after the race and then you can comment on it. 

“But while driving it’s a bit hard because I was mainly focusing on Charles, because I couldn’t see what 💟was happening on the outside.”

Perez was forced to watch on from the🅠 garage as V🅠erstappen cruised to a record-breaking 16th victory from 19 races this season. 

Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton claimed second place to cut the gap to Perez in the champꦬionship down to just 20 points with three rounds remaining.