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Albon: Poor qualifying rooted in lack of soft tyre running

Red Bull's Alex Albon was obviously disappointed to clock in a lowly P12 in qualifying, almost six tenths off Max Verstappen's best time, but the British-Thai racer has a good idea of the reason for the gap. Albon had clocked in fifth in Saturday's final practice but failed to make the Q3 cut in qualifying a few hours later. A setback he attributed to a lack of running on Pirelli's soft compound tyre in FP3 "It’s very clear where it is," said Albon, referring to his performance gap to Verstappen. "I could tell you where I was slow without looking at the data. "It’s just honestly a little bit of a lack of FP3 running on the soft tyre I think hurt us, because it is so...
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