Sainz: Red Bull Remains Favorite But Dominance Is Over

"I think my common sense tells me that on normal tracks Red Bull should still be favourites. Domination, like we were seeing, hopefully not."

"But favourites, yes. And then it will be a very tight fight with both McLaren and us. I think we are all three at a very similar level. Our last reference of a normal track is Imola and Miami."

"And if I see those two tracks, we seem to be half a tenth behind McLaren and maybe a tenth or two behind Red Bull."

"And yeah, it still means that that any small progress, any small upgrade, any small thing that we bring to the car might switch it to a potential race victory or a winning car."

"And at the same time, being within 24 points of the Red Bull in the Constructors, you see that when you put them under pressure yesterday, Max did a mistake in Q3 run two, Checo was out in Q1."

"We all just need to be there, you know, to show that these things can happen to Red Bull too. And yesterday is the best example."