Sebastian Vettel: “I feel happier after this session. We start in the top 10 and will be in the middle of a big battle for points. There is still a lot of hard work ahead of us, but it starts to click for me and is getting a bit more automatic which helps me focus more on driving. I am still learning about the car but I felt more comfortable today. The conditions were difficult – despite the sunshine – and the gusts of wind were quite unpredictable and the car felt My last lap in Q3 wasn’t the best. The wind direction had changed again and I lost time as a result, which is expensive with such a tight midfield was a better session for me. Let’s see what we can do tomorrow . “
Lance Stroll: “A difficult qualifying and we didn’t manage to match yesterday’s level of performance. I didn’t feel very comfortable in the car today and couldn’t rely on it that much. The traffic at the end of Q1 also helped me didn’t help my second run and it took me some time. It’s quite a change from yesterday so we’ll walk away and understand where we can improve and do better next time. Even if today’s result is disappointing I think that we’re going to be stronger in the race. That was the case in the last two races. It’s a track where we saw a lot of overtaking maneuvers last year and I’ll be going hard tomorrow to make up ground. With one strong first lap and a good strategy, I think we can score points. “
Otmar Szafnauer, CEO & Team Principal: “It was great to see how Sebastian literally got the AMR21 under control over the corners, bends, uphills and downhills of Portimao this afternoon. We did a few setups before qualifying. Changes made and it seemed they were working well as he was “on top” in Q1 and Q2. He wasn’t as competitive in Q3 and ended up in P10. Lance was hit hard by traffic in Q1, and the difficult, windy conditions didn’t help either, so he narrowly made it through Q2, but he’s done extremely well so far this year, he says he’ll be aiming for points tomorrow, and we think that’s a legitimate ambition despite his P17 Rasterschlitz . “
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