It was a case of job done for Scuderia Ferrari at Autódromo José Carlos Pace in the qualifying session for the 2021 Brazilian Grand Prix, as Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc were able to finish ahead of the Maranello team’s rivals in the fight for third place in the Formula 1 Constructor Standings, McLaren.
The Italian side moved ahead of McLaren into P3 in constructors’ championship after last weekend, with a gap of 13.5 points and now Ferrari put themselves in a strong position to extend that with Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo eighth and ninth respectively in Friday’s qualifying session in Brazil.
“I managed to hit the ground running on Friday. If you put this quali format at the beginning of the year, I would have struggled a bit more. But now at the end of the year, I felt like I was on top of it since FP1, which allowed me to put some good laps together in Q1, Q2 and get to Q3 and nail a good lap.” – Carlos Sainz explained at the end of the qualifying session.
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For the second qualifying session in succession Pierre Gasly beat both Ferrari cars, something which the Spaniard – who outqualified a team mate in a conventional qualifying at Interlagos for the first time – had anticipated:
“It’s no surprise. They have a very strong car, they have been very quick all season, it’s just now they look to be finding the consistency they were maybe lacking at the beginning. And that car is seriously quick. We will try to beat it and try to keep improving because as Ferrari, we don’t want to be beaten by AlphaTauri even if we beat both McLarens.” – Carlos concluded.
