La Ferrari plays the role very forcefully in Austria. In Spielberg Friday Qualifying – which decree the starting grid for Sunday's race – it's pole position for Max Verstappen who finishes ahead of the two reds of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.
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Very important performance for both drivers cavallino . Leclerc, as he also admitted in the GP seat, he managed to combine all the essential elements to try to catch Verstappen – and he hit the front row. Sainz instead, since Q1, it seemed the most constant of the pair: great feeling with the SF-23, full of the updates tested in filming day at Fiorano, and also confident due to the pace that the car showed during FP1 in the morning.
Sainz: “We didn't expect it to be so close to Red Bull”
It seems that the famous "right way” Ferrari has found it. Above all, the smiles of the drivers at the end of qualifying tell us this with great force - like that of Sainz who analyzed his third place like this"It was a good ride. As a team we had a good lap and we certainly made some good steps forward. We didn't expect to be so close to Red Bull in qualifying, so we are very happy overall. The weekend is obviously still long, but we have put ourselves in a great position for Sunday's race. Tomorrow, however, will be a different day: different event and also different weather conditions, so it could be a completely different ranking, but we must try to avoid it."
