Carlos Sainz lashes out at Toro Rosso's qualifying tactics

Carlos Sainz has hit out at Toro Rosso following qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix. The Spaniard exited qualifying in Q2 after showing some decent pace earlier in the weekend. The 22-year-old felt that his team favoured Daniil Kvyat in the other car, who out-qualified Sainz.

"I was of course complaining because I was never getting a slipstream," he said. "Behind me there were people getting my slipstream, interesting enough it was team-mate and every lap the same, every lap it was three or four tenths on the data just from pure top speed.

"I wasn’t happy about it, because we are not being given equal chances, and when you are not being given equal chances and giving away four-tenths on the straight you don’t get to enjoy it much. It was planned for me to go in front, [but I was] the four sessions in front, four sessions you go out in front… for me it’s not fair."

Sainz also spun earlier in the session, and said he was also impeded by yellow flags: "I’m very disappointed as after FP3 we finally got to show some performance and were definitely in a good position for q3 but qualifying was full of trouble.

"On my two fastest laps I hit yellow flags and I couldn’t improve so P13 is definitely not where we want to be. When you have two yellow flags on your laps where you are coming two to three-tenths faster you can’t do anything and you just have to back out of it."

 

Fergal Walsh

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    • Jun 10 2017 - 22:34

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