168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz says he “paid the price” for his lack of running on the soft tyres as he suffered a shock Q2 elimination in Dutch F1 Grand Prix qualifying.

The Ferrari driver and Mercedes’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton were the big scalpsܫ in the second part of qualifying, with both dumped out after setting times good enough for only 11th and 12th respectiv🅰ely.

Sainz blamed his early exit on a combination of tra🅠ffic and not🐬 getting any meaningful running on the soft tyres.

“I was still keeping my hopes up gi❀ven that I normally get up to speed very quickly and I could make it through Q3 today given the fact that I've been three weeks without touching the car, no dry running yesterday in a 🎐track like Zandvoort, we haven't touched the soft tyre,” Sainz said.

“Tricky balance, tricky wind, not our fastest track for us for sure, and yeah, all these things adding up, plus a bit of traffic in sector 2 with Nico [Hulkenberg]ꩵ, it cost me probably Q3. But yeah, maybe I was bei😼ng optimistic by believing we could make it.”

A gearbox problem curtailed Sainz’s session in FP2 and meant he was unable to complete any laps on the sof☂t tyre during the only properly dry practice runnin🙈g at Zandvoort, with FP1 and FP3 both hit by rain.

As a result, Sainz’s first experience of running Pirelli’s fastest ty🌄re came during qualifying, and he struggled🌼 for pace throughout.

“In Q2 I just lacked the experience of yesterday, knowing what to do with the front wing, with the🌠 tyres, to set up the car for a new soft in Q2. And yeah, I paid the price,” he explained.

“Not easy after the break as I said, not to do any la༒ps on FP1, FP2, FP3 and go straight into Qualy with a soft tyre around Zandvoort, pushing flat out.

“I felt like I did some strong laps given the circumstance, but in the end, just the end wit🌄h a bit of ꦇtraffic, it was always going to be tricky.”

Teammate168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Charles Leclerc qualified sixth, over nine t༺enths off the pace, and admitted Ferrari’s gap to the frontrunners was “too much”.

Sainz conceded Ferrari’s poor performance at Zandvoort is a concern, though he expectജs a better showing at upcoming races.

“The last few races we've been two to four tenths off the McLaren and the Red Bull, depending on the ci🐠rcuit, we expected to be four or five tenths,” he said.

“So to be nine [tenths]𒈔 is a lot more than what we expected, and it just shows that we have a clear weakness in these long combined corners that we have in Zandvoorꦫt.

“I expect us to be more competitive in Monza and Sinℱgapore, but here it just shows how far we've got left if we want to out-qualify a McLaren one day.”