Stoffel Vandoorne called qualifyไing seventh for the Malaysian Grand Prix ༺"as good as it gets" after McLaren entered the Formula 1 race weekend expected to struggle at the power-hungry Sepang circuit.. 

Running without chassis upgrades given to teammate Fernando Alonso and on his first time at the Sepang cir🅺cuit, Vandoorne described the session as "as good as it gets", finishing three places ahead of the Spaniard.

"The whol൲e qualifying session was really goodꦆ for us," Vandoorne said.

"From🍬 the moment I hit the road I didn't ma🎉ke any mistakes, put together all the laps I needed to.

"To qualify seventh on a ♛circuit like this is probably as good as it gets."

McLaren-Honda had expected to🗹 suffer at Sepang, a faster circuit than Singapore, where Vandoorne took his best-ever finish in P7 a fortnigꦜht ago, but the Belgian was able to record his best qualifying result yet in F1.

"This track was always going to be more difficult for us than tracks 🏅like Monaco or Singapore, where there are a lot of corners but we're in a good position," Vandoorneﷺ said.

"We've shown really good pace in qualifying but it's hard to tell how we will fare in the raౠce.

"I think we generally tend to be a bit betterღ in one-lap pace so tomorrow will be tough."