I couldn’t quite fight for pole today against but we are doing everything we can to make the car as competitive as possible. I was happy to be on the front row, it is not quite as close as we would have liked but we will see what happens tomorrow. We are looking to optimise the balance of the car, especially as it is very windy on the track, but we will see how the car runs tomorrow and analyse the limited long runs we got yesterday. In the past we have been very strong in the race, which is a positive. It will also depend on the tyre degradation; we will need to see how much it will rain overnight and see how everything goes tomorrow. On pure pace, it will be difficult to beat the McLarens but anything can happen in Formula One so we will see. I will try my best tomorrow in front of my home crowd and we will see where we are.

Qualifying was going well, but unfortunately my lap was compromised by Lewis in Q1 and that harmed the rest of our session, as then we only had one set of new tyres in Q3. It is what it is, but I think we have the pace and are going to be strong tomorrow. We improved the car from some of the issues we had in the practice sessions, which is promising. The conditions have been tricky this weekend, especially the wind today, so it will be about maximising performance from the data we have. Overall I think today with P5 was a solid result, and we can fight from there with the people ahead. The target for tomorrow will be to hopefully make up some places at the start and secure a good result.

I’m definitely disappointed, it feels like we stepped down quite a lot from FP2. I was happy with my lap, but for whatever reason we lacked quite a lot of pace compared to what we had. I thought we’d go through quite easily, but even in Q1 we struggled quite a lot, and it was pretty tight to get P10, so we’ll have to revise what happened. It’s not too bad of a place to start to score points, the last two days has been very inconsistent weather and we saw from last year in the race anything can happen, so I’ll try my best.

It was definitely tricky out there in a windy day and with generally tough conditions. It was really hard to put a clean lap together in qualifying, and I just felt that I was probably struggling a little bit more than maybe some others. We found things in the setup last night that were encouraging coming into today, but unfortunately, we were not quick enough and just very much on a knife edge. I was sliding with the rear out of some turns so I had to take a bit of margin, but in doing that we were slow because I couldn’t push as much as I would have liked to, and that is where I felt I couldn’t get the lap out of it. Being out in Q1 doesn’t help ahead of tomorrow as it’s a narrow circuit and not one of those notorious for easily overtaking, but let’s see what happens.