Carlos Sainz will start the Canadian Grand Prix from third place on Sunday, but the Spanish driver is aware that a P2 finish was easily possible and admitted admitted he had pushed too much in the final corner of his fastest Q3 lap, which led to him missing out on a front row start.
The Ferrari driver eventually finished seven-tenths of a second down on Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, but also lost second place on the grid for the race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve to Fernando Alonso by just a tenth, despite the fact that Carlos Sainz’s last Q3 lap started strongly, with the Spaniard able to match the sector times of the Dutchman for the first half of the lap.
Carlos admitted that the lap started to get away from him halfway around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, and he made a mistake up at the final corner.
“In that lap I was coming purple sector one, then sector two I knew I had lost a bit too much and then I just tried to do a very quick last corner, then it didn’t pay out and it cost me half a second. I was just trying to go for it, for the pole and in the end I ended up P3 for that mistake,” he said after the qualifying session for the Canadian Grand Prix.
Regardless, Carlos Sainz is confident that P3 in qualifying still puts him in a good place ahead of tomorrow’s race in Montreal: “We’re in a good position for tomorrow, I think it’s going to be a good fight with Max at the front. And let’s see what we can do with Fernando because he’s been very quick all weekend so let’s see how it goes.” – he added.
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After a few bad race weekends for Scuderia Ferrari, Carlos Sainz confirmed that collecting as many points as possible and returning to the championship battle with Red Bull had to be the target for this weekend. And most importantly, he had gained pace with the F1-75 challenger: “Today I was feeling quite okay with the car, especially with the full wet, as the track was drying I felt like the others did a bit of a step and maybe I was lacking a couple of tenths.” – the Spanish driver concluded.
Carlos Sainz was unfortunately the only Ferrari representative in the final stages of the qualifying session after Charles Leclerc dropped out in Q2. The Monegasque driver will start the race from 19th place due to a power unit penalty.
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