"We stayed on top of the situation and had good communication throughout, clean laps and we rewarded ourselves with this sweet qualifying result," the German said, after benefiting from being one of only three drivers who managed a second flying lap before McLaren's Oscar Piastri crashed and brought the session to a halt. That was before he was demoted three places to fifth on the grid for failing to stay within the speed limit during a red-flag period but the sentiment remains true. Hulkenberg, who returned to F1 this year on a full-time basis for the first time since being dropped by Renault at the end of 2019, said that the result was "definitely nice".
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Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg qualified second between championship leader Max Verstappen and Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, while Albon's decision to run slick tyres from the start of the second session led to him ending it fastest of all. The difficult conditions provided an opportunity for two drivers who drive for normally uncompetitive teams to shine. Rain then prevented any driver from improving their position Some limelight for two backmarkers Alex Albon was fastest in Q2 but did not manage to set a time in Q3 before the session was red-flagged.
Coming at 300, he is doing 30km/h in the final chicane focusing on his own lap. Gasly, who failed to progress from Q1, said: "It is completely unacceptable to be driving the way Carlos did. The incident prevented Gasly from progressing beyond the first session. Sainz became tangled up with Alpha Tauri's Yuki Tsunoda - both were building up to quick laps at the final chicane as Gasly approached at more than 180mph on a flying lap. It capped a difficult day for Ferrari, in which Sainz qualified eighth but was demoted to 11th after being given a three-place penalty for impeding Alpine's Pierre Gasly. "Depending a lot on traffic on your out lap on the slicks, if you have people on inters coming behind when it's raining that you are slowing down a little bit, you are sliding everywhere. "Really tricky, but again you are just making yourself in a bad situation," he said. He said traffic and having to slow down for other cars and subsequently losing tyre temperature could be to blame. Leclerc said he could not fully explain why he was unable to improve when he switched to the slick tyres when other drivers did so. It's obviously not the first time in those situations that we are on the wrong side." He added: "I will speak internally with the team and try to understand what we can do. "You are just relying on small details instead of an easy Q2 going through when the track is dry, you need slick tyres. "Having said that, other drivers did the same strategy as us and went through to Q3. "We are just making our life way too difficult in those situations. "But for some reason, the team decided otherwise. The track was dry, I think Alex did that and went earlier than everybody on the slicks. Leclerc said: "I called for slicks on the out lap it was clearly for slicks. McLaren's Lando Norris, also in a car much slower than the Ferrari, did what Leclerc wanted to do and ended the session third.
Williams driver Alex Albon chose slick tyres for the start of the session and ended it fastest of all in a car that is normally uncompetitive.
He will start 10th after his team-mate Carlos Sainz was given a three-place grid penalty. He did so, but when Leclerc rejoined on slicks, he was unable to improve his time and ended the session only 11th fastest, failing to progress to the top 10 shootout. The team overruled him and asked him to stay out to set a "banker" lap. Leclerc told Ferrari over the radio on his first lap out of the pits that he thought the track was ready for slick, dry-weather tyres and he wanted to come in straight away for a change, before setting a time on the treaded intermediate tyres. In this case, Leclerc's complaints arose from the start of the second qualifying session on a drying track at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The errors have continued into this season, despite new team boss Frederic Vasseur making changes to the strategy team over the winter. The 25-year-old was on the wrong end of questionable calls from the pit lane several times last year as he tried to battle Max Verstappen for the championship, and lost at least two victories as a result. "We can't afford those mistakes again," Leclerc said. It was the latest example in recent years of Ferrari's strategy decisions being called into question.
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