Leclerc was fastest in final practice but only qualified 15th after Ferrari left him in the pits at the end of Q1. He was asked how close he could have been to Mercedes:

I think in terms of pace we have shown that we were quite quick especially in FP3. Also I think it’s always difficult to say [where we would have been] because at the end we didn’t start where we wanted to start and we didn’t end up where we wanted to end up.

But if you look at the rest of the weekend I think our pace was similar.