Germany's Hulkenberg clocked one minute, 23.826 seconds while Mexican teammate Perez timed 1:24.461 in Q2, failing to reach Q3 on the 4.3 km circuit.
"It's been quite a difficult weekend for the team but I have to give credit to the way they have handled the situation and fixed it. The main penalty of yesterday was losing the track time and maybe with more set-up time we would have been able to make it through to Q3 today," said the German.
Perez said: "It hasn't been the easiest of weekends so far. I was very optimistic on Friday before the accident but what happened has affected us quite a lot. We have lost some of the new upgrades that we had brought to the race - parts that were working really well and were making a big difference.
Series leader and defending two-time world champion Lewis Hamilton topped the times ahead of his Mercedes team-mate and main title rival Nico Rosberg in today's final free practice.
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