After some somewhat complicated training sessions for Carlos Sainz, the Spanish driver managed to regain some rhythm to be the third fastest driver in the classification0.248s behind his teammate and polesitter, Charles Leclerc.
As soon as he got out of his car, the Madrid native evaluated his qualifying session and admitted that he was happy with his third position in the “most difficult weekend in Monaco” since he arrived in Formula 1.
“It has been a very complicated weekend so far. The truth is that I had one of the most difficult Fridays I have had as a driver in terms of confidence and for sure the most difficult weekend in Monaco of my career. But hey, at the end In the end we managed to put in a couple of decent laps to be third each morning, which is a much better position than where I was in Free Practice.”
However, Looking ahead to the race, expectations are higheras his long-run pace appears to be much better than his qualifying pace, something he hopes Ferrari will study over the next week to find out what happened.
“It’s something curious. It costs me a lot on one lap, but then in race pace yesterday I was very fast. It’s something that we will have to analyze calmly and see why it was like that. Once the weekend passes, we will see why it has After that. But it gives me a little more confidence for tomorrow, although it has been a very hard weekend for me this time,” he said.
At the team level, Ferrari, with Leclerc on pole and Sainz third, is the favorite to take the most points, and Sainz admits that he will try to be a good team player this Sunday.
“The important thing is that in the end Charles has been one step ahead all weekend in terms of confidence on a circuit like Monaco and that in the end has put him on pole, which is the ideal position for him to win tomorrow and me coming third will try to help as much as possible,” he concluded.
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