168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez has admitted he “explored” his Red Bull F1 car “a little too much” as he slumped to a disappointi൲ng qualifying result aꦦt the Spanish Grand Prix.

Red Bull started the Barcelona weekend on the back foot, but 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen was only narrowly pipped to pole position by McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris. Perez, however, could♌ only take eighth in his Red Bull, some si𝐆x tenths adrift of his teammate.

P8 will turn into 11th for Sunday’s grand prix once Perez has his three-place grid penalty applied for driving his car in an u𓆏nsafe condition after crashing in Canada last time out.

“📖Unfortunately, my final secto🧸r was in Q3 a little bit too poor. I lost a bit too much compared to myself. I think we could have been a lot closer,” Perez explained.

“We only had one single set, so that made things a litꦚtle bit tricky. The wind changed a bit. But overall, I think we've been a little bit too far [away] this weekend.

“We've been chasing the ⛄balance every now and then. But I feel like we've done some good steps, which made me feel a little bit more comfortable. Margins are so small. I think to really find those things, I needed the progression, and I didn't have that progression through the weekend.

"So we'll work on that, and hopeful💙ly tomorrow we'll have a good race car. We have to work a lot on that as well. So we've compromised a little bit qualifying for hopefully a good tyre degradation.”

Perez, who reached Q3 for the first time in four races after suffering consecutive Q1 eliminations in Monaco and C🌊anada, added: “I think we explored the car a lot. I think we struggled a lot more than we anticipated in Barcelona.

“Obviously the correlation sometimes can be good, sometimes not. I think tyre issues have been also a bit of a handout. So it's been quite hard to pick up a direction over the weeke꧒nd, but I t🍌hink we're just getting there.

“Hopefully tomorrow we are able to🅺 show some good race pace and turn the page quickly.”

Asked if he made a lot of changes to his car after Frida🦋y practice, Perez replied: “Yeah, we've been exploring the car quite a lot. A little bit too much.”

And Pe𝄹rez admitted he has “some work to do” to close the significant gap to teammate Verstappen.

“I think here it's been much more of a struggle than last year,” he said. “Because last y🏅ear it wa𓂃s down to the conditions. It was damp and I went out in Q2.

“I think here it was more of a balance limitation that I struggled with. The gap to Max has been a little bit too far on the weekend. So we꧒'ve got some work to do in that regard.”