The day started off quite tough but we did our best and maximised everything that we could. The tyres are our main issue as we were struggling quite a lot with the grip throughout the day. Our long runs have not been that great and we were too slow on the straight. However, I think we did execute everything really well in qualifying and worked well as a Team. I am ultimately happy with how it went; I left everything out there and we ended up in P5. Everything looks a lot better than yesterday and hopefully with the things that we changed on the car, we are a bit more competitive tomorrow in the race. Let’s hope that the changes will make an impact and we can put together a good performance tomorrow.

I’m really happy about our performance today. Coming to qualifying we didn’t expect to get through to Q3, and compared to the start of the weekend we made a quick turnaround, so thanks and well done to the team for the big effort. We were able to understand our upgrades, and once we found the direction to follow, we were able to improve session by session. Our main competitors have also done a good job, so it won’t be an easy race tomorrow, but anything can happen, especially in a street circuit. We’ll stay focused and do as much as we can.

We struggled a lot with overall grip. It’s frustrating, but it’s not excuse, we’re all on the same track. I was sliding around most of the lap and had a massive slide in turn 14, meaning I had to abort the lap, which is a shame. It’s a little bit puzzling, because through different points the car was good, we felt strong, it definitely felt better in Q1 than it did in Q2. We’ll dig into it and see what’s going on. For everybody tomorrow it’s going to be about protecting the tyres and stopping them from graining in these cold temperatures, which is going to be quite tough but that’s the target. These conditions are tricky, but we’ll look into what we did yesterday in the long runs and try and make something work for tomorrow.

The whole weekend we have been struggling with the grip, it is weirdly difficult to put a lap together, with sliding and grip with the tyres. I did expect a very difficult qualifying and it turned out to be a very tricky one. We have been lacking a lot of low-speed performance and we haven’t been able to put the tyres in the right window, that was the main issue and has been very costly in this session. I wanted more today but the progress was not enough. Max managed to put a very good lap together and they seem to have found a bit of performance over one lap, whereas from our side we didn’t. I think it is going to be quite a tricky one tomorrow, I believe that our race pace is a lot more competitive than over one lap though so we should be able to come through the field.