On a weekend where Red Bull had to adjust its ride height set-ups considerably to cope with the RB20's ongoing dislike for kerbs, Perez's crash late in FP3 meant Max Verstappen went into qualifying without any flying lap preparation on the soft tyres.
Although this didn't ultimately prevent the Dutchman blitzing to pole, Perez failed to progress to Q2 – blaming a switch between used and new softs in Q2 for a costly Tosa hairpin mistake from which he couldn't recover.
