The Red Bull driver lined up last for Sunday’s race, having crashed out of qualifying in Q1.
He went on to pit five times in a dismal race which saw him lapped twice by team-mate and race winner Max Verstappen, who now leads the championship by 39 points.
Despite it marking Perez’s first scoreless race of the season, the Mexican said his mistake was “very costly” and “unacceptable".
He said: “We paid the price for my mistake and that’s been very costly. I just have to apologise to my whole team because it is unacceptable to have this kind of mistake.
“I have to move on, learn from it, and I cannot afford another zero in the championship.”
Despite the poor result, Perez had started the race “really well”, running 15th by lap 30 before falling back down the order after several incidents and a period of rain.
He also made contact with Haas driver Kevin Magnussen at the chicane on lap 34, breaking his front wing.
Perez said he had “no idea what was going on” during the incident but had “quite some damage.”
He added: “It was going really well. Unfortunately, I hit the traffic fairly early and that put us back to our original position. Then the rain came, we were one of the last ones to pit.
Source: Autosport