Perez says he’s ‘had enough of the speculation’ on Red Bull future as he looks back on ‘really bad race’ in Belgium

Soon, he had his team mate Max Verstappen on his tail, with Red Bull initially opting to swap the two drivers. When the same situation occurred later on, they solved it by pitting Perez much earlier than he wanted.

That, combined with having two sets of mediums and only one set of the hard rubber on a day when the C2 tyre was the best race option, meant Perez came home eighth – which became seventh following Russell’s penalty.

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“Yeah, it was a really bad race for us, it started well in the first stint, but then the second stint was really complicated by going onto the medium compound,” Perez lamented afterwards.

“That really hurt a lot when I had to push and the degradation was quite high. Yeah, we had to do quite a short stint unfortunately and that compromised I think the race time but, ultimately, we didn’t have the pace today.”