Carlos Sainz: "It makes me quite angry, I'm close to pole"

MADRID, 8 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish driver Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) has recognized that it makes him "quite angry" to have been close to pole position again in the Japanese Grand Prix, and has highlighted that "for some reason" he has had several qualifying sessions in which " that last half-tenth always falls on the other side."

"Qualifying has gone well. I have been comfortable with the car, I have done quite good laps but again half a tenth we need to get a dry pole. It makes me quite angry because I am close to her, I have already had many races but for For some reason that last half-tenth always falls on the other side," he told DAZN.

However, the Madrilenian is also left with "the positive" of Saturday. "I've done a pretty good lap, a pity the last chicane, I missed a tenth or tenth and a half in which I lost pole," he said. "Both dry and wet this weekend I am going fast and well, so I hope to be in the fight tomorrow. Now to wait and see what the weather does, the wind and the rain, which is coming and see what kind of race we are", indicated.

On the weather conditions for Sunday, Sainz assured that they give him "quite the same", although he knows that a wet race will make it difficult for Verstappen to become world champion. "If we want to beat Max we know that in the dry and in the race he goes very fast. Red Bull takes better care of the tires, we have already started to see it in Free Practice 3, the same in race pace it loses a little more. Mixed in which a little of everything happens and we can take advantage of it, but the three of us are very close to each other. It will be tight no matter what happens", he concluded.