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At the end we have come out of a difficult Qualifying with both cars in Q3 inside the top ten, which is a positive.

Tomorrow will be tough in the dry as we have many quicker cars starting behind. However, the car was working quite well at high fuel on Friday and we have a good opportunity to fight with the McLaren and Ferrari.

Lance did a superb job to qualify eighth but, had he not lost a significant amount of time behind Checo in sector three on his fastest Q3 lap, he would have qualified fourth.

Even without Lewis' kiss on the wall we wouldn't have been able to do two laps on the Soft and it was definitely a lap two tyre today.

All drivers will have a free choice of tyres at the start, which means that they should be able to run the optimal one-stop strategy.

Admitting his costly pitlane mistake, Lewis Hamilton apologises to his team vowing that he will rectify it on Sunday.

We were very close to a place in Q2 with Kimi but unfortunately, we missed out.

We can't change today's result, so we need to simply focus our attention on the race and move forward as much as we can.

Obviously we knew Max was going to be starting from the back of the grid and with today's tricky qualifying conditions, the reward wasn't worth the risk.

We just tried to do the best we could and tried to get the best out of it.

Lando Norris takes pole in Sochi, ahead of Carlos Sainz and George Russell, as Lewis Hamilton crashes in pitlane and Mercedes makes another strategic error.

Times from today's qualifying session for the VTB Russian Grand Prix.

With heavy rain hitting Sochi as expected, race director, Michael Masi has laid out the proposed plan for remainder of the weekend.

With heavy rain hitting Sochi as expected, race director, leading to the cancelation of FP3, Michael Masi has laid out the proposed plan for remainder of the weekend.

After just one year, F3 will once again race alongside F2 as part of the support bill at a number of Grands Prix.