Carlos Sainz will be an outlier among the top ten on Sunday's US Grand Prix grid as the Ferrari charger, who qualified P6, will be one of only two drivers who will start their race on the soft compound tyre. Sainz's plan in qualifying was to follow his rivals' lead and launch his race shod with Pirelli's medium rubber, but the Spaniard's crucial second run in Q2 on the yellow-rimmed tyre proved slower than his first run on the red-walled softs. It wasn't what he expected. Sainz pointed to a sudden and untimely pick-up of the wind as the reason for his thwarted effort that derailed his tyre plans. "We need to analyze what we should have done differently in Q2, because we elected to do...
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