Today's post-qualifying press conference with Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz.
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The 53 lap Grand Prix at Monza's "Temple of Speed" should be a one-stop race, thanks to the relatively contained degradation levels expected if the weather remains as forecast.
We've missed a good opportunity today and so we are a little disappointed in our performance.
Taking pole position in Monza, in front of a full crowd for the first time in two years, is a really special feeling.
Overall, that session was probably a little worse than we had hoped for - not in terms of our final positions, which were probably our maximum today, but with respect to the gap to the front of the grid.
Nyck did an excellent job today and although he was frustrated not to put the final lap in Q2 together, he still starts inside the top 10 tomorrow.
We go into tomorrow's race with both cars looking reasonably competitive in the midfield.
Today's press conference with Tom McCullough, Pierre Wache, Andrew Shovlin, Franz Tost, Mattia Binotto and Mario Isola.
The circuit characteristics of Monza are not especially suited to our car and it was always going to be a challenging qualifying session.
It wasn't a fantastic day today. We simply have to regroup and hope we have a better day tomorrow.
Charles Leclerc will start the Italian Grand Prix from pole position, while grid penalties see him joined on the front row by George Russell, ahead of an all-papaya second row.