McLaren have not managed to improve their Friday practice pace, as they deliver one of McLaren’s worst qualifying results in the teams history, with both cars failing to go through to Q2.
The Woking based team successfully beat their worst qualifying effort from Montreal – Fernando Alonso has qualified in 16h place, with team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne in 18th.
The faster McLaren of Fernando Alonso was 2.9s off Lewis Hamilton’s pole position time.
Unless rain affects tomorrow’s race, it’ll be a very difficult task for either of the cars, but Alonso stays optimistic.
Fernando Alonso, Post-Qualifying:
“This was a disappointing session for us.”
“Our performance has usually been so-so on Saturdays, with our average position in qualifying so far this year being 13th. That said, I have scored points in every single race I have finished, and hopefully tomorrow will be one of those Sundays.”
“There was nothing wrong with the balance of the car today; our lap-time was just not quick enough to make it into Q2. In our pre-quali meeting, we said we thought we would be around 14th or 15th, so this is more or less where we expected to finish.”
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Carlos Sainz
Stoffel Vandoorne
