Leclerc Describes 'Strange Feeling' That Separated Him From Better Qualifying Result

"[In] FP3 already, I felt like it was going away a little bit from me, but I was confident that it would come back, the feeling, in qualifying as is normally the case whenever we have a strange feeling in FP3."

"You put on new tyres in qualifying, low fuel and everything comes alive again - today wasn't the case."

"I struggled quite a lot with the front tyres, until the last run in Q3 where I went very aggressive with a front wing to try something and it went the other way. All in all, it hasn't been a clean day for me."

"I think realistically, it's going to be difficult to target the win because Max is going to be too strong. Checo [Perez] might be a target. But they [Red Bull] seem to strong once again, because they have more margin than we initially thought they had [during practice]."

"But all in all, my target is obviously to try and come back and be on the podium. And if that's beating Checo, then we'll try and do that."