“It should be a one-stop race most certainly, we by no means know with the climate however it’ll be fascinating. I believe realistically it’ll be very exhausting to maintain the Ferraris behind us so let’s have a look at the way it goes however I am up for the problem.”
Albon had completed fourth throughout Saturday’s Dash in a chaotic wet-dry affair, however he was penalised and dropped right down to eleventh for failing to remain above the minimal time below Security Automotive circumstances.
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Sainz fared even worse having made contact with the barrier which pressured him into retirement after returning to the pits earlier than bouncing again in Qualifying.
“We pressed the reset button rather well for this quali, there’s nonetheless the entire weekend forward of us and we managed to place collectively, actually my greatest lap in a Williams in quali, solely three tenths off pole,” he stated.
“I believe it will need to have been a superb lap as a result of to be solely three tenths away from pole must be a superb job. Very completely satisfied, very proud, issues are going properly and an excellent place to start out tomorrow.”
He added: “No matter comes I believe I can be on the tempo it is only a matter of getting all of the operational and all of the driving collectively like we did in quali. We had a clear quali and also you see the efficiency and the lap time is there. We simply must nail these two issues.”