Carlos Sainz will start from the second row of the grid tomorrow, behind Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso, but the Ferrari driver is confident that a strong result can still come out of the race.
Carlos Sainz will start from the second row of the grid tomorrow, behind Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso, but the Ferrari driver is confident that a strong result can still come out of the race.
"We are in a good position for tomorrow," he told Jaques Villeneuve after qualifying, "it's going to be a good fight with Max because he was fast all weekend and then with Alonso as well."
With Charles Leclerc starting from the bottom of the grid in tomorrow's race, Sainz was the only Ferrari driver on track and struggled to compete with those around him who were improving with each lap.
"Today I was feeling really good with the car, especially in the wet. The track was drying out, but I felt that the others took a step forward and maybe I was a few tenths short," he said.
The Spaniard was close to taking pole, but a slip at the final corner interrupted that, but Sainz knew it would be hard to beat Verstappen. "I was purple in sector 1, but in sector 2, I knew I had lost a little too much and in the last corner I tried to do a fast corner and it didn't pay off and cost me half a second. I tried to go for it and got P3," he concluded.