Qualifying has not met our expectations today, especially given the car seemed to appear quite well-balanced during FP3.
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Nico Hulkenberg has been hit with a three-place grid drop for failing to stay above the minimum time set by the FIA ECU during the red flag period in Q3.
Lance Stroll will drop 3-grid places after the Montreal stewards adjudged him as unnecessarily impeding Esteban Ocon during qualifying.
Yuki Tsunoda has been handed a grid penalty for impeding Nico Hulkenberg during today's qualifying session.
Even if the conditions were the same for everyone, for various reasons, qualifying really didn't go our way today.
Dry track conditions are expected tomorrow, but clearly all the rain that has fallen so far has effectively led to a degree of reset in terms of the track surface conditions.
It's frustrating for Pierre but all is not lost and we'll give it our best in the race to have both cars inside the points.
It is frustrating to have completed Q2 so successfully and then fallen a bit short in Q3. However, with a new car, and in tricky conditions, we have put ourselves in a good position to race tomorrow.
Max was outstanding today, in every condition he was consistently quickest and on top of his game, it was an incredible job by him today.
Realistically, we will be aiming for the podium with both cars tomorrow. We will give everything to challenge for more, but we will see.
Despite the starting positions, we have seen plenty of times in the past how anything can happen in this race. We must focus on tomorrow and choose an aggressive strategy that will allow us to exploit any opportunity.
There is quite a mixed-up grid for the race, but we have a competitive car so there is everything to play for.
All in all we welcome a result with two cars in Q3, it's a strong position to start tomorrow and gives us a good chance of scoring some points.
Max Verstappen is the class of the field in final practice in Montreal as rain promises thrills, spills and surprises in qualifying.