The bodyguard was injured during the incident w▨hich occurred in the Ladrón de Guevara neighbourhood in the munꩲicipality of Perez’s home town Guadalajara on Saturday.

Local media initially reported the attempted car theft and Perez confirmed after qualifying a💛t the Monaco Grand Prix that the situation 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 to his security. 

“They hurt one of my security guys with one shot,” said Perez. “They b🐬asically tried to rob the car.

“Nothing else going on, he’s in good c𝐆ondition. And the police got the robbers.”

Perez also revealed that his f🅷amily are safe and were not involved in tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhe 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 di💫saster," Perez said of his qualifying session. "We changed oꦿur 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 ha🎃d no front 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 i♎s 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."