“It’s going to be a one-stop race most likely, we never know with the weather but it’s going to be interesting. I think realistically it’s going to be very hard to keep the Ferraris behind us so let’s see how it goes but I’m up for the challenge.”
Albon had finished fourth during Saturday’s Sprint in a chaotic wet-dry affair, but he was penalised and dropped down to 11th for failing to stay above the minimum time under Safety Car conditions.
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Sainz fared even worse having made contact with the barrier which forced him into retirement after returning to the pits before bouncing back in Qualifying.
“We pressed the reset button really well for this quali, there’s still the whole weekend ahead of us and we managed to put together, honestly my best lap in a Williams in quali, only three tenths off pole,” he said.
“I think it must have been a good lap because to be only three tenths away from pole has to be a good job. Very happy, very proud, things are going well and a very good position to start tomorrow.”
He added: “Whatever comes I think I will be on the pace it’s just a matter of getting all the operational and all the driving together like we did in quali. We had a clean quali and you see the performance and the lap time is there. We just need to nail those two things.”
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