Team Talk - Saturday in Monaco

Catch up with what all the teams had to say following Saturday qualifying for the sixth race of the season - the Monaco Grand Prix

Ferrari

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Sebastian Vettel
"Of course Iโ€™m really disappointed, because what we did on the car from Thursday to today was really good and we had improved it a lot. This morning we had a very good start, I knew that there will be a lot more to come and I wasnโ€™t worried at all, but as the qualifying progressed it was just getting more difficult for us to extract the grip. When you donโ€™t have the grip here itโ€™s more penalizing than on another track, the car was starting to slide a lot and at this stage we donโ€™t understand why. While all the grid was going faster and faster, in the end we did the same fast laps we did at the beginning. I did what I could, but I was not as comfortable as I was in the morning. Itโ€™s disappointing because I missed a good opportunity to start the race potentially from the front tomorrow. I was expecting more because the car gave me all reason to expect more but in a couple of hours weโ€™ll start to look forward, the race is tomorrow, we have a great car and a great pace."

Kimi Raikkonen
"The whole weekend has been quite tricky, but this morning the car felt a bit better and for qualifying we improved even more. For sure we did the right things, but we struggled to make the tires work as we wanted; they were too much on the edge of the grip, the rear was slipping or the front was sliding and in a track like this when you donโ€™t have a consistent good grip you lose a lot of time because of that. Obviously we are not happy of where we end up and the penalty due to the gearbox change for sure doesnโ€™t help, but weโ€™ll try to make the best out of it. We cannot predict what will happen tomorrow, for sure the race itโ€™s not going to be easy, but usually many things happen here, weโ€™ll try to get the most, to do the right calls in case of Safety Car and to take the right decisions."