Perez’s family security guard in “good condition” after shooting

The bodyguard was injured during the incident which 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 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 basically tried to rob the car.

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

Perez also revealed that his family are safe and were not involved 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 changed 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 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 is 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."