While team-mate Charles Leclerc claimed his second pole position of the 2022 season after beating Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, Sainz will start on the fifth row after a “disaster” in Q3.
The Spaniard was just approaching the end of his first flying lap when red flags caused by Fernando Alonso’s Turn 11 shunt meant he was unable to log a banker lap.
Problems with firing up his F1-75 car after the stoppage then meant Sainz wasn’t able to complete the optimal two slow laps to bring the soft tyres into their ideal operating window, leaving him to struggle on “freezing cold tyres” for his sole flyer.
Having felt he was “in the fight for pole the whole weekend”, Sainz cut a frustrated figure in the paddock after the session, telling Sky Sports F1 that “everything that could have gone wrong for me went wrong”.
“I’m angry because we shouldn’t have these problems with the starter,” he said. “It was just a disaster.”
Asked to explain his problems by Autosport, Sainz said: “In Q3 we had the…
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