Sainz was a shock elimination in Q1 at the Yas Marina Circuit, leaving him o�๊�nly 16th on the grid.

Immediately after his early exit, ﷽Sainz complained over team radio about potentially being impeded by two cars on his final effort.

While the impeding wasn’t in🌼vestigated, Sainz felt it had an impact on his final run, and was the reason he failed to progress into Q2.

Speaking after qualifying, Sainz hinted that drivers ‘give a bit ❀of dirty air on purpose’ to aid their chances of making it through.

"Between us drivers, we know," h🦋e said. “We know that if you do a corner one or two seconds in front, you're going to make them lose a tenth or two in the corner. 

"I see people as the weekends have gone by when it's tight🦋 in Q1 or Q2 giving a bit of dirty air on purpose in some corners, maybe to make the other [driver] lose some time in corners which we don't consider impeding because it's not like y🦩ou need to lift. 

"But you know you're giving him dirty air and you know you're giving him a bad run in that cor🎐ner.

“Everybody is doing it. If you put yourself in a bad tra☂ck position, you're going to suffer🔯 more.”