After a strong run of races, Perez had a disastrous weekend in Monaco, failing to score after a crash early in Q1, and another qualifying mistake in Barcelona saw him start down the field and recover to fourth in the race.
Having at one stage put himself within six points of team-mate Max Verstappen in the title battle Perez is now 53 behind.
"Basically, I want to reset, go again,” he said when asked about his mindset heading into the Monaco weekend. “Basically Monaco was all down to me, I had a really bad mistake.
“But then in Barcelona in the qualifying again, it was tricky with the damp conditions, we didn't manage to have a good quali, and then we paid the price on Sunday. So I think I'm looking forward to getting back on the form we had in the early season.”
After his recovery drive in Barcelona Horner suggested that Perez had put himself under too much pressure ahead of Monaco when the title battle closed up and that with the gap now open again he will be able to relax. However, Perez doesn’t see it that way.
"Well, no, I don't think so,” he said. “I think we all have to deliver to our maximum and we just have to make sure we will deliver.
“We have a great car, and we should be having a lot of podiums, wins and so on from now till the end of the year. We can see that the competition is getting closer and closer all the time, but we will try our best.”
Source: Autosport