Charles Leclerc dominance at the qualifying stage of Las Vegas GP to grab pole position
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00:03 [CHATTER]
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00:10 Have a great race, Wayne.
00:19 Hello, Steve.
00:20 [CHATTER]
00:24 Good luck, Oscar.
00:28 Thanks.
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00:33 [CHATTER]
00:36 Sorry, can you just take a shot, please?
00:46 Sorry, can you just take a shot, please?
01:00 [CHATTER]
01:04 Yeah, I really enjoyed the track layout
01:20 since the very first laps.
01:21 We were competitive from the very first laps.
01:25 Q1 and Q2, I was really happy with the job I've done.
01:27 And especially Q2 is probably the best
01:29 laps I've ever done in qualifying.
01:33 And then Q3, I'm disappointed.
01:35 But yeah, I cannot be too disappointed either,
01:38 because anyway, the laps were good enough for Paul.
01:40 But there was much more in these two laps.
01:42 I did too many mistakes.
01:45 But it's like this.
01:46 I'm happy.
01:46 It's not really a surprise, to be honest.
01:50 I think if you look at the track layout, low grip,
01:53 a lot of big braking zones, 90-degree corners,
01:56 and then, of course, a lot of low-speed corners.
01:58 That is just not our strength.
01:59 This year, we know that.
02:01 So we tried to do the best we could.
02:03 And I think in Q3, we definitely did the best we could.
02:07 So at the end, P3 and then, of course, P2 for tomorrow
02:10 is still, all in all, I think, an OK result.
02:15 Yeah, it was tight there at the end.
02:17 So I'm glad I was a few hundreds quicker than P10.
02:20 But yeah, it's a great day for the team.
02:23 And I think we have a good race car as well.
02:27 Pretty terrible, but it is what it is.
02:30 It's impressive to see the Williams so high up.
02:35 Yeah, just didn't have any grip out there.
02:37 I don't think the tires were working the whole session.
02:39 So yeah, not ideal.
02:43 It's been a problem I've had for a long time.
02:46 Tomorrow will be the main objective for us now.
02:53 We are starting P12.
02:55 So we've got to understand and learn
02:59 from what happened yesterday with the tires
03:00 and see what we are able to improve for tomorrow.
03:02 Feeling is obviously very good with the car, with the team.
03:08 I think we've been on it all weekend.
03:10 And it's amazing to have a front row lockout.
03:14 Unfortunately, we cannot put that for the race.
03:17 And I will have to start 12th, which obviously
03:19 puts me in a very bad mood and very disappointed,
03:22 as you can imagine.
03:24 Because I would love to be fighting for the win tomorrow.
03:27 And unless something extraordinary happens,
03:30 it will not be the case.
03:31 And I will have to do a comeback race that hopefully I
03:33 can enjoy at least and do a good job.