“Obviously there’s a lot of data to look at, and everybody is flat-out to try and take the best decision for tomorrow. But it’s been a very productive day, not particularly fast unfortunately, but a very productive one.
“Now we are in the process of looking at everything, so I cannot really give you the direction we’ll go into yet, but we’re on it and I’m confident that we will take the best decision for us tomorrow.”
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Pushed if he feels that Ferrari are in the fight, he signed off: “I don’t feel like it’s the case personally. Unfortunately, it felt like Red Bull and McLaren are a long way ahead this weekend, but let’s wait and see. I hope I’m wrong.”
Sainz, who was a tenth slower than Leclerc, offered similar feelings to his team mate as he explained Ferrari’s approach across the pair of 60-minute practice sessions.
