I am very happy with how we turned it around today. The Sprint was quite shocking, we had a lot of oversteer and struggled with the balance throughout and couldn’t fight at all. We changed the car but we also surprised ourselves with the turnaround and the performance in Qualifying. It felt much better and the car felt more consistent, once we were in a better window I could drive more on the limit. I’m very pleased, it has been a while since we’ve been on Pole. I am very proud of everyone to make those changes and to be in this position. Tomorrow we are in the fight and hopefully will have a bit of fun on track as well.

Looking ahead to the rest of the weekend and to understand what to do with both cars, we decided to take my car out of parc ferme for the Sprint. That was to prioritize trying some different set-ups and take learnings, it compromised our Sprint but ultimately was beneficial for Qualifying and hopefully the race. We made some good improvements, the main thing has been the tyre and the first sector was still on the difficult side, but it was a good step from where we were earlier. The pace was a lot better in Qualifying and the main thing is we found the balance. The main race is tomorrow, I am hopeful we will have good pace, we are looking better on the long runs, and I think it is coming to us. The target will be to go with the leaders and try to get through the field, I think we can be competitive. I think we have made some good progress today and that’s really positive.

It wasn’t an easy day. In terms of performance, I think we were quite similar to yesterday. In Q1 we found traffic and we were on the edge with the lap time, but luckily we managed to get through, and after that, we had a clean Q2 where I felt I gave all with my lap. Unfortunately, it just seems we didn’t have enough pace and P14 was pretty much the maximum we could reach today. We’ll look at the data overnight from the Sprint and qualifying to try and understand where we can improve for the race. It won’t be easy tomorrow, but we’ll do as much as we can and will try to maximize everything.

There was a bit of traffic when I started my last lap, and when the margins are hundredths of a second, it’s frustrating. My tyres weren’t quite ready, which compromised the start of my lap. I couldn’t improve on my first lap time, which has put us out of position. Tomorrow’s going to be tough, and we struggled in the Sprint today. We’ll work as hard as we can as a Team for tomorrow, and find opportunities on track.