Sergio Perez regrets 'typical Monaco' mistake which brought Q3 to an early end, dashing the hopes of numerous rivals, not least Carlos Sainz.
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Though pole was basically secured, but for the incident involving Sergio Perez, Charles Leclerc believes he would have gone even quicker.
Today's post-qualifying press conference with Charles Leclerc, Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez.
It was a shame at the end there as both drivers had the ability to improve a little and unfortunately Checo made a small mistake and that had a concertina effect with Max as well.
Until Qualifying, we'd been having a good weekend, the car was working well, the drivers were taking it step-by-step and putting in strong performances.
Today's result falls short of our expectations, and our first objective will be to understand the reasons for it.
There was potential to be even higher up the grid than seventh and tenth, but we weren't able to put together the laps in Q3, which ended early with the red flag.
It is going to be hard to race from 16th and 19th on the grid, however, with a risk of showers, anything may yet happen.
Today's press conference with Mattia Binotto, Christian Horner, Andrew Shovlin, Frederic Vasseur, Otmar Szafnauer and Andreas Seidl.
A variety of strategies is possible, with all three of the compounds having already showed that they have an important role to play.
We were hoping to get into Q3 with both cars and then a few unfortunate things happened, a few little mistakes on track and we were out in Q2.
George's result shows where the pace of the car is this weekend - Monaco has never been the easiest place for us, and that's been true again this year.