I’m very happy with my performance today. I think that in the first practice session we were quite a bit off so I’m really pleased with being on the front row. The lap was very good: it is always very tough to go from a medium to a soft tyre, so to nail the lap with no references was great for us. Of course, when you look at it, we were incredibly close off pole so I am very happy to be second. I don’t think we should have been on the front row and we didn’t make any dramatic changes in the set up. We kept trying to maximise everything that we had, especially when we were struggling a bit more for pace. This is good for us and a little motivation boost. The McLarens looked fast up until the last run so it will be hard to keep them behind during the Sprint but hopefully it will be fun.

I’m happy with the result obviously and how it came out. We could have done a couple of things better in terms of set up, it didn’t feel 100% and we weren’t able to extract the performance of the car, we’ll have to look through it, but yeah, I’m very happy. It was a shame for Isack, but at the same time he gave a nice tow to me in SQ2, that helped, so thank you to him, it was a good team effort. Let’s see tomorrow!

In SQ1 I felt very good and strong in the car, and we were quite close to the top guys. After that, I knew I had to put a good lap in SQ2 to get through to SQ3, but unfortunately, I overdid it and I had to abort the lap. I think everyone out there is struggling here, as it’s a tough track for the tyres on the entry phase and they just overheat throughout the corner. It’s a shame as it seems we have a decent car, but it’s still training and we’ll understand what went wrong today ahead of tomorrow’s Sprint and Qualifying.

On my second lap I went off and it is obviously a shame. I am disappointed because we started ok and it’s a shame to miss out on SQ2 for a small mistake. From a starting point it wasn’t too bad, and we were looking to build in the session from there. We stayed out to try and cool the tyres on track and to be honest, I really struggled to get the temperatures down to start my second lap. We started too hot and through the lap I struggled, it is really frustrating. Our pace was there and indicates we should be a lot further up than we are. We have tomorrow’s Sprint to try and learn some stuff and we want to do a better job in quali, to put the car where is should be.