Sainz thinks the car "has the pace" but it will be difficult from P12

Carlos Sainz impressed in qualifying pushing his Ferrari teammate throughout all three sessions, although he would fall short at the end, putting his Ferarri into P2 after the chequered flag, although will have to start the race for P12, after his 10-place grid penalty after his incident yesterday.

Recovery mode for Sainz

Not only was today a recovery day for Sainz, due to his incident with the man-hole cover in FP1, but he was quick to praise the team for the turnaround of his car, "Yeah, well, first of all, an outstanding job by the whole team, we dominated qualifying together after a tough Friday yesterday to put the together the whole car, to get a front row lockout I think is incredible.", But tomorrow will also be a day where the driver will be focussing on the comeback "I would love to be fighting for the win tomorrow with Charles and Max, but unfortunately I’m going to be on a comeback race"

Despite the good result today the driver still hasn't quite put the happenings of yesterday behind him "Still disappointed to yesterday, I'm not going to lie, I’m still in a very bad mood, I’m trying to not show it too much, but it is what it is."