Sainz was a shoc🎶k eꦡlimination in Q1 at the Yas Marina Circuit, leaving him only 16th on the grid.

Immediately after h🦩iꦇs early exit, Sainz complained over team radio about potentially being impeded by two cars on his final effort.

While the impeding wasn’t investigated, Sainz felt it had an impact o✤n his final run, and ꦜwas the reason he failed to progress into Q2.

Speaking after qualify𒁃ing, Sainz hinted that drivers ‘give a bit of dirty air on purpose’ to aid their chances of making it through.

"Between us drivers, we kno𝓰w," he said. “We know that if you do a corner one or two seconds in front, you're going to ꦫmake them lose a tenth or two in the corner. 

"I see people as the weekends have gone by when it's tight in Q1 or Q2 giving a bit of dirty air on purpose in some corners, maybe to make the other [driver] lose some time in corners which we don't consider impeding because it's not like you need t♊o lift. 

"But you know you're giving him dirty air and you kn📖ow you're giving h෴im a bad run in that corner.

“Everybody is doing it. If you put yourself in a bad track po𓆏sition, 🌺you're going to suffer more.”