“It is incredible to be here and see how the sport has grown in the US in the last few years,” Leclerc said. “The last weekend hasn’t been great for me – I did a mistake in the race,” he said. “Overall, I was pretty pleased with qualifying,” he said. Overall we did a good job but we have to stop making the weekends so difficult. Sainz, too, bounced back from a difficult Friday, when he crashed heavily early in second practice. I just didn’t have the confidence in the car today.”. But even so, he was unable to get close to the dominant forces of Ferrari and Red Bull, and was even beaten by former team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the Alfa Romeo by 0.15secs.

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