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Carlos Sainz admits that he is extremely happy with his qualifying result. The Spaniard managed to sneak into the final part of qualifying and will start the Grand Prix from tenth position. Sainz revealed that he was having problems with his pace in the final practice session.
However, when it came to qualifying he was able to pull together and do enough to get into the top ten: "We can be extremely happy with today's result. It's been a very tough weekend up until now, especially after this morning's FP3, where we saw that we were lacking a bit of pace compared to our direct competitors.
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"So qualifying was looking like a difficult session for us, but I got into a good rhythm, managed to put a very good lap together and got into Q3 – something I wasn't expecting this morning! We can be proud about it; it wasn't easy at all! Hopefully tomorrow we can do a good job, hold on to this position and fight for points!"
Technical director James Key was also very pleased with the result: "Carlos did a great job to squeeze in; it was extremely tight with the other cars around! Running on one set in Q3 is always a bit risky because you lose your references a little bit and we didn't quite get the lap together in Q3, but I don't think it would've made much difference to the result."
Fergal Walsh
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He did a good job