Gasly: "Qualifying trickier than the rest of the weekend"

Pierre Gasly is content with his qualifying position after coming through in eleventh as the battle in the drivers' championship with Carlos Sainz goes down to the final race.

The pair are level on points going into the final race in Abu Dhabi, Sainz starts from eighth on the grid.

"It was a bit of trickier session for us in Qualifying compared to the rest of the weekend. We were sliding a lot and we weren’t as competitive as this morning," Gasly told Toro Rosso.

"We’ll try to understand the reason for this tonight, but all in all it’s not bad because we start from 11th position tomorrow and have a free choice of tyres.

"We knew we had more degradation with the Soft compound, so hopefully, this will play in our favour during the race as our long runs looked strong yesterday.”