The Red Bull driver struggled for pace and could only qualify fifth at Suzuka, while teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen stormed to a dominant pole with a lap that was 0.773s quick❀er than Perez’s effort.&nbs🍨p;

Perez acknowledged Verstappen had done a “tremendous lap” but reckonꩵs he could have joined♌ the Dutchman on the front row if he had an extra set of new soft tyres for Q3. 

"Max has been very strong,” Perez said. 

"I mean, when we see the difference thaꦬt he is making, he's definitely had a tremendous lap. W💦ell done to him.

"Definitely the front r൩ow was in the car today because [using] that second set in Q2 was not ideal. 

“And that put us on the back foot 🃏to the Mc🦩Laren mainly by just having one set of new tyres, so that was not ideal.”

Speaking to the official F1 website,🤡 Perez admitted he has felt “two steps behind” Verstappen💛 all weekend in Japan. 

“It was hard. We did struggle through the weekend,” the Mexican explꦰained.

“Wꦯe kind of were always two steps behind and we just couldn’t get the entry stability I was looking to get over a single lap.

“But come race day I think we are looking a lot better. I think that tomorrow is going to be such a degradation tyre battle that hopefully tomorr♛ow we 🍒can still be able to do a one-two.”

R🎃ed Bull team principal Christian Horner said Perez has been unable to match Verstappen through the high-speed corners. 

“He’s slightly under th𝐆e car compared to Max in those high-speed turns,” he told Sky. 

“He’s closed the gap in high-speed tu🌜rns but Max keeps moving it. But P5 for Checo, I think he’ll have strong race pace, we saw that yesterday so I think he’ll be okay in the race✨.”