Sainz sour: 'Binotto knows I'm angry, this shouldn't happen'

We certainly expected  Carlos Sainz on the second, if not first starting row in Australia. Nothing proves less true, however, as a recovery race awaits the Ferrari driver on Sunday from the ninth starting position. Sainz is not happy and states that there was nothing wrong in Q3.

"At the lap at the end we had a problem with the starter," Sainz told Sky Sports. Preparation for the final run went anything but smoothly for the current number two in the world championship. "We couldn't start the car and were three minutes late to from where we wanted to go out. I couldn't prepare the tyre, everything was rushed and I had to do the lap with freezing tyres.

Sainz not entertained

In the end, he didn't manage to improve his time in the closing stages of Q3 either. "It was a horrible lap. Everything that could go wrong went wrong because I was in the fight for pole position." For Sainz, a fourth place and twelve world championship points seems to be the maximum possible result this weekend.

To say that the Madrid native is not happy is an understatement. "He [Mattia] knows I am angry because we shouldn't have these problems with the starter and it was just a disaster and he knows that I was in the fight for pole and everything that could go wrong did go wrong."