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While blaming poor communications for his poor run, Charles Leclerc ultimately blames himself for a disappointing qualifying which leaves him seventh on the grid.
Today's post-qualifying press conference with Max Verstappen, George Russell and Lewis Hamilton.
Two-time world champion, Max Verstappen says that continued tinkering with the format would cause him to reconsider his future in F1.
A one-stopper remains the optimal strategy, with medium-hard being theoretically fastest and soft-hard slightly slower.
Once again, the sessions were tight with several teams completing similar lap times. This was good for Alex as he was able to just beat Gasly and Hulkenburg to take a very promising P8 on the grid.
It's hugely disappointing for Checo that he's not up there with Max. We suspect an engine setting issue contributed to a lockup that he had on his first lap in qualifying.
The reality is that we don't have enough underlying performance on the car and that we have a lot of work ahead to improve that.
We're happy with how today went. We needed a little bit of happiness and at least for Saturday, we've got some of that.
We definitely had the pace today to have both cars in Q3, so it's disappointing not to have achieved that with Esteban out in Q2.
We head into tomorrow's race feeling confident with our race pace and ready to fight once again.
There is still a lot of work to improve the car, but we can see that the floor update we brought to this event has delivered a step in aero performance broadly in line with our expectations.
Tomorrow we start P10 and P14 and everything seems to be going to plan. The mission is to get points.
Our indications from practice and the evaluation of the upgrades were rather positive, so it's certainly disappointing to have both cars out in Q1.