Sergey Sirotkin: "I just pushed like crazy"

Sergey Sirotkin has taken pole position for the first race at Hockenheim but admits that his grid position surprised him.

Sirotkin has so far called his season a "joke" but is hoping that his form can soon start to improve.

"It is the first time I've been to the track, so I didn't have much expectation before we came here, and Free Practice didn't go super good so you're thinking more about getting a top three than getting a pole," he said.

"Unfortunately there was a bit of a mess on the warm up to the first push, so I just stopped pushing, did a cool lap, and the last lap I knew most of the people would not be as quick and I just pushed like crazy, really," he continued. "If I finished the lap and improved then great, and if I don't then no one else did anyway."