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“I would have never expected to be able to pass a Red Bull and a Mercedes at a track like this, but it’s true that our pace today was really, really strong. I felt very at home in the car since the laps to the grid and I at least thought that we might have a chance to make a bit of a comeback. So yeah, I enjoyed that one.”
Quizzed on whether the performance almost made things more confusing for Ferrari, Sainz acknowledged that the team need to try to understand their lack of consistency.
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“Yeah, I think you need to wait until the end of the weekend to assess the whole weekend performance, and it’s clear that obviously with a normal weekend [in] Q3 yesterday I should have made it, but not better than P6, P7 like Charles was,” the 29-year-old commented.
“And then it’s clear that our car this year seems to be better suited for the race than for qualifying, and we seem to have a weakness on switching the tyres on or something about the car in quali that is not quite working, because in the race it’s a much better race car.
“Points are given on Sundays so I’d rather have a car that allows me to attack on Sunday, but we need to find the right trade-off and the right balance between quali and the race.”
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