Q1 1m46.154s (on Softs) 15th

Q2 1m44.847s (on Softs) 12th

“I’m happy with qualifying, happy with my performance and what we could do as a team. We were struggling a bit to find a good direction for the car throughout yesterday and today. I think we made a good step forward coming into qualifying from FP3.

“It was a bit hard to know how it was going to go, but we seemed at our most competitive in quali because so far we’ve been a bit behind everyone else. I think we made some steps forward but not enough to get into Q3. So, I’m happy with my lap and how everything went, but the grid position we’ll be starting from won’t be as good as we wanted.”

Andreas Seidl
Team Principal

“We’ve been struggling to get more performance out of our package and couldn’t make any steps forward throughout the practice sessions. Therefore, qualifying outside Q3 was not unexpected. We were unlucky with the red flag for Carlos which denied him a second shot at Q2.

“We now switch our focus to race preparation, and we’re expecting a difficult race tomorrow. Still, we’re here to fight and with several grid penalties applied to various cars tomorrow, we could be back in a position to challenge for points.”