{"id":465077,"date":"2023-10-07T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T09:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465077"},"modified":"2023-10-07T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T09:31:00","slug":"sainz-disappointed-but-not-surprised-by-shock-q2-exit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sainz-disappointed-but-not-surprised-by-shock-q2-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainz disappointed, but not surprised by shock Q2 exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Sainz will start the Qatar Grand Prix on Sunday outside the top 10 after a shocking Q2 exit.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard struggled throughout the entire session, much to the surprise of the Tifosi as he showed real promise in Friday&#8217;s only practice session, finishing P2 behind Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a very difficult quali, right from the beginning,\u201d said Sainz. \u201cJust struggling with the balance. The rear was very, very loose, while in FP1, I managed to switch on the tires and get decent grip on this new surface.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf6\ud83c\udde6Carlos thoughts after qualy:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA difficult qualy, right from the begging and struggling with the balance. In FP1 we tried to switch on the tires, to tried [to get used to] this surface, and I just couldn\u2019t find ant quip out there so I\u2019m not surprised to be out in Q3\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NbEyveBBOe\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/NbEyveBBOe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carlos Sainz News (@CSainzNews_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSainzNews_\/status\/1710452826839671169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the track temperature dropped this afternoon, I just couldn\u2019t find any grip out there, so I just struggled quite heavily, so I\u2019m not surprised to be out in Q2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sister Ferrari of Charles Leclerc also complained of low grip and lack of balance, despite putting the car in fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian will be keen to solve their issues as quickly as possible in a weekend where there is a possibility of scoring 59 points in total, including the Sprint. And with them being involved in heated battle with Mercedes for 2nd in the Constructors every point counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Sainz will start the Qatar Grand Prix on Sunday outside the top 10 after a shocking Q2 exit. The Spaniard struggled throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":465078,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17721,17127],"news_category":[16921],"gn_keywords":[18887,17743],"acf":{"announce":"The Spaniard found himself out of the top 10","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465080,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465077\/revisions\/465080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465077"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465077"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}