Ferrari, Carlos Sainz looks over his shoulder

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The words of Carlos Sainz

Carlos Sainz took stock of the situation after Friday at Suzuka: "Behind Max we are very close, us, Mercedes and McLaren. We are a bit back to the scenario before Singapore, with Verstappen and Red Bull strong. With the engineers we are working to refine my set-up and today we tried different settings to find the right balance on this circuit".

"There is a lot of data to analyze and tonight we will decide how to proceed, trying to find the correct window of’use of the compounds", finished Carlos.

These are all the times:

1 Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Racing1:30.688 4
2 Charles LECLERC Ferrari+0.320 4
3 Lando NORRIS McLaren+0.464 4
4 Carlos SAINZ Ferrari+0.549 4
5 George RUSSELL Mercedes+0.640 4
6 Fernando ALONSO Aston Martin+0.804 4
7 Alexander ALBON Williams+0.867 5
8 Oscar PIASTRI McLaren+0.974 4
9 Sergio PEREZ Red Bull Racing+1.022 4
10 Valtteri BOTTAS Alfa Romeo+1.051 3
11 Lance STROLL Aston Martin+1.083 6
12 Esteban OCON Alpine+1.106 4
13 Nico HULKENBERG Haas F1 Team+1.109 5
14 Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes+1.141 5
15 Liam LAWSON AlphaTauri+1.453 5
16 Guanyu ZHOU Alfa Romeo+1.477 6
17 Kevin MAGNUSSEN Haas F1 Team+1.481 4
18 Yuki TSUNODA AlphaTauri+1.490 4
19 Pierre GASLY Alpine– 5
20 Logan SARGEANT Williams+1.632 4

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