2025 Bahrain Grand Prix - Qualifying

James Vowles, Carlos Sainz & Alex Albon react after Qualifying

Published

12 APR 2025

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2 min

James Vowles, Team Principal: It’s great to see Carlos up into Q3. He’s progressing every race weekend and there’s more to come from him.

In terms of Alex, it was a disappointing session. As a team, we didn’t execute leaving the garage as cleanly as we did on Carlos’ side, and it resulted in Alex being at the back of the queue, unable to do the outlap he wanted. He has the pace, we’ve seen it every race weekend so far this year, and he is able to get the car into Q3. I have no doubt that would have been the same today.

On the positive side, he is very quick, and it’s a track where we can overtake and make a difference strategically. I’m looking forward to working with him on the race tomorrow in order to get both cars up into the points.

Carlos Sainz: It seems like we made a step in the right direction, but we need to keep our heads down and carry on trying different things. I feel I still have margin for improvement, and I want to be higher than P8! Having said that, I’m happy with today and I definitely felt more in control, knowing where to push, where there is potential lap time, and staying disciplined with my driving. I’m confident in what we are doing, the speed is there, and I have a great team around me, so I just need to stick to my plan and continue taking the right steps, starting with the race tomorrow and trying to score some points!

Alex Albon: It was messy today. We spent about three minutes waiting for all the other cars to go past us, stuck in the pit exit traffic jam, which equates to about 25-30 degrees of tyre temperature lost. When that happens, you end up going into Turn 1 with no grip. I had to overtake three cars on my outlap to make the flag. That’s just the way it is, unfortunately. Normally we are very good at getting out there, but today we slipped up. As for tomorrow, we have some of the strongest race pace in the midfield and at least you can overtake on this track! It’s going to be tricky to score points, but it is possible and I will give it everything to recover from what happened today.

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