Esteban Ocon (Alpine, 7th in qualifying and 6th on the grid, at the Canal+ microphone) : “It was a good qualifying session, given where we were starting in PR3, we really reversed the performance, it was much better. The car behaved well. I hit the wall twice on the last lap, it was really hot, I took all the risks. It was nice, but we still have work to do. Max (Verstappen, 15th on the grid) will go too fast for us, that’s for sure, but I think we can fight with Lewis (Hamilton, 7th). We saw it by the long “runs” on Friday that we were good, even better than on a qualifying lap. It’s up to us to put everything in place, so far it’s been a good start to the weekend, we’ll have to do well again on Sunday. »
“There is still a lot of work to do, things to improve”
Pierre Gasly (Alpine, 10th in qualifying and 9th on the grid) “It was really very complicated. I didn’t manage to do a good lap in qualifying, it was much more difficult than in FP3. There is still a lot of work to do, things to improve. But we start in the top 10, we are in a good position to get points. I was really happy at EL3, we had found what I needed, but it didn’t happen again. There is everything to play for from 9th place, but we will have to work. »
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