Sebastian Vettel concluded his evening qualifying session with a fifth place finish, just behind his Ferrari team mate Kimi Raikkonen.
The German had topped the afternoon's FP3 session but admitted to struggle when searching for the proper rhythm in the successive segments of qualifying.
"Overall I'm happy, but we were probably a bit too aggressive which made it difficult to find the rhythm we had this afternoon," Vettel conceded.
"We tried to anticipate the conditions tonight, but we got caught out. Obviously, there is quite a bit of a shift between the afternoon and the evening, which is normal.
"The sun goes down, the track temperature goes down, so everybody tried to do the same thing but I think in this regard we probably went a bit too far."
Vettel acknowledged however that his car felt good and had no major problems to report.
"The car was much better than yesterday and I think it was a good session. We had the speed to beat Red Bull and in the end we missed out by a little bit, but I think we can definitely fight for the podium.
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