Pierre Gasly described his qualifying sessions as 'unbelievable' after putting his Toro Rosso in sixth place for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
As the conditions worsened throughout the qualifying hour, the Frenchman was able to keep his head in such treacherous conditions using the complete range of Pirelli tyres available.
Gasly also passed on his thanks to the team for solid communication between himself and the team to ensure they were able to take advantage of the conditions.
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"Yeah it’s just unbelievable," he told Sky Sports. "What a crazy qualifying. We had the slick tyres, inters, wets, and yeah I mean it’s just fantastic for the team. We had a difficult weekend, and P6 today is just unbelievable.
"Honestly it was really tricky because the conditions were changing like every two laps. Obviously, they did the right call I was trying to give clear feedback, but they did the right call.
"We used the slick tyres at the right time, inters, and wets. So a really, really good job for the team."
The 2016 GP2 champion feels the wet weather doesn't add an extra credit to their performance in qualifying given their pace all weekend.
He also feels finishing in the points is certainly on the cards despite being ahead of both Red Bulls as the Hungaroring is historically a tough place to overtake.
"The car at this track felt really good since the beginning of the weekend," he added.
"It’s a track that I love. I knew that there will be an opportunity for us this weekend. So far everything went well but most importantly is tomorrow so hopefully, we can keep going like this.
"Max is right behind us, Daniel as well, they’ve got mega pace so it’ll be difficult to keep these guys behind, it’s going to be tough, but we’ll keep pushing and we have both cars in the top ten.
"So a really good performance by Toro Rosso and hopefully we can score a lot of points tomorrow."
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