Carlos Sainz will start on the second row in third for
tomorrow’s grand prix, he said: “Honestly a bit of a shame this morning, I couldn’t
get past Daniel [Ricciardo] but I knew that the pace was there, I knew that attacking in
quali I could have been in the top three and we managed to do some clean laps.
“It’s really tricky around here with a new soft, every
single lap is a bit of an adventure with the wind and you don’t know what’s
going to happen, keeping all of this in mind, the laps were not too bad.”
On tomorrow and the conditions, he added: “You always
finish a lap and you think you could have gone so much faster having a cleaner
lap, but it’s almost impossible putting out a clean lap around here, there’s
always one place you will slide, one place you overheat the tyre, one place where
the wind hits you different and you start struggling so it’s a very tricky balance,
very tricky track to drive. That’s why being P3 on the clean side of the road for
tomorrow might be a good start.”
On the crowd, he said: “It’s amazing like always in Miami. Every
time we come every year, the fans are really good energy and they give us good
vibes and we enjoy coming here a lot.”