The bodyguard was injured during the incident which occurred in the Ladrón de Guevara neighbourhood in the municipality of Perez’s home tow🦩n Guadalajara☂ on Saturday.

Local media iniওtially reported the attempted car theft and Perez confirmed after qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix that the si༺tuation is “thankfully” now under control.

Perez said the security guard is recovering well in hospital following the unsuccessful attempt to steal one of the cars belonging t💟o his security. 

“They hurt one of 💛my security guys with one shot,” said🅘 Perez. “They basically tried to rob the car.

“Nothing else g𝓰oing on, he’s in good condition. And thꦗe police got the robbers.”

Perez also revealed tha💜t his family are safe and were not in♐volved in the incident.

The Mexican qualified ninth for Sunday’s race during an incid🦋ent-filled qualifying session in Monaco, while Red Bul♏l teammate Max Verstappen will start from second on the grid.

"It was a⭕ disaster," Perez said o♊f his qualifying session. "We changed our approach, we were making good progress through qualifying, Q2 we did a good step.

"But the track was cooling down and we changed our approach into Q3 run one, which I had no front end at all, the tyre♒s 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 place, so hopefully we are able to do it, strategy wise and so on it is very very difficult. We’ll🏅 see what we are able to do."