Battle of strategies? Sainz sees 'variety' in choices

After claiming his first Williams podium at Baku, the Spaniard once again finished inside the top three at the Sprint in Austin, Texas.

The Williams driver then couldn’t put himself as far up the grid as he did in Sprint Qualifying and will start from ninth place on Sunday.

After qualifying, he said: "We are P9 which is the average of the season, so it's not like we've been particularly quick here or anything.

The Spaniard looks ahead to the race with optimism. "I think what is important is that our race pace is always better than our qualifying pace. Again, I expect tomorrow hopefully to pick up a bit of pace in the race."

He continued: "Attacking always, yes. We always seem to be quicker in the race."

The Williams driver also explained that he expects to see different approaches in terms of strategies.

He added: "There's going to be variety for once, I think [with the] one-stop, [there’s] a question mark over the hard tyre also. I think there's going to be one-stop, two-stop [with] hard tyres, so it's going to be interesting.

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