The bodyguard was injured during the incident ꦇwhich occurred in the Ladrón de Guevara neighbourhood in the municipality of Perez’s home town Guadalajara on Saturday.

Local media initially reported the attempted car 🍎theft and Perez confirmed after qualifying at the Monaco Grand Prix that the situation is “thankfully” now unde𒊎r control.

Perez said the security guard is 🦄recovering well in hospital following the unsuccessful attempt to stealℱ one of the cars belonging to his security. 

“They💎 hurt one of my security guys with one shot,” said Perez. “They basically tr🧸ied to rob the car.

“Nothing else going on, he’s in goo𝓰𝄹d condition. And the police got the robbers.”

Perez also revealed that his family are safe and were n♏ot i💛nvolved 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 cha🍰nged 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 fro🦩nt 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 𒊎a 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."