'I think keeping faith and keeping trust that it was going to come was the key.” 💬 Carlos Sainz says his first dry F1 pole, which he took in qualifying for the USGP, was 'a long time coming':
Sainz edged out Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc by just 0.065 seconds during their final runs in Q3 to claim his third F1 career pole.
The Spaniard recently vented his frustration over the fine margins he often lost out on pole by at races this year, making his result at the Circuit of The Americas on Saturday a welcome one. “But I managed to put together a good lap without mistakes, and pole position, it was a long time coming after a few qualis in the dry getting very close to it, but not quite getting there.”
Ferrari has not won a race since the Austrian Grand Prix in early July, having struggled with tyre degradation over the long runs through the second half of the season.