We did everything we could today but that was the maximum we could get in Qualifying. The whole weekend has been difficult. We struggled with the general balance of the car but also the brakes, with the red flag it was hard to get many clean laps in. My final lap was better, and I tried to extract the most out of it, but it was still not good enough compared to the others. There’s been very poor grip and we’ve played around with the setup but none of it really worked for us this weekend. There’s a lot to analyse and debrief to understand what we have tried this weekend and how we can attack next weekend. Historically high deg tracks have been good for us but tomorrow will be quite tough and we’re not sure what to expect at the moment. Naturally tomorrow I will do the best I can and we hope we can fight with the teams ahead.

I have ticked the box of reaching Q3 and that is the first step for me. I think it was good execution, I had the red flag in Q1 with no time set and then I only had one set to make it through to Q3. I am reasonably happy, although P10 is not always the place as a driver that you want to be. It was a good recovery from practice, I will take it for sure, it could be a lot worse, considering the struggles I had in FP3. It is just hard to find the performance in this car and I am still learning how to do it best. It requires a lot of concentration to stay in the window this car needs to perform. It was not the easiest car today, you saw that with Max qualifying P7, which is unusual. We just have to, as a Team, make a step forward and I need to keep working hard. I think I have made some progress so far with the Team; it is step by step and only my second race with the Team. I didn’t get a great long run in practice but I have some confidence for tomorrow to move forward. At least Max and I are starting semi-close to each other in position so we may be able to do something different with the strategy. I will try to finish as close to him as possible. I want to score points and do lots of overtaking, that is my passion! I will do my best.

It wasn’t a great Qualifying for us, reaching Q3 was the goal today. We got really close and I feel like we could have gotten through, but I didn’t do a good enough lap. I had a tricky session out there and after the wind changed direction, I felt like the balance of the car went the wrong way and therefore struggled with it. I think I had a strong start in my last attempt and thought that was enough, but unfortunately, I was a bit too conservative towards the end of that lap. Tomorrow is going to be interesting, as it will be a two-stop race due to the high tyre degradation. A lot will happen, and if the pace is there, we can fight to get points.

Q1 was okay up until I had a wheel spin out of the corner and opened DRS, which closed again on the way to turn 11. Unsure exactly what happened; if it was something I did, I will definitely learn from it as it’s cost me a lot today, which is pretty frustrating. The car has been quick this weekend, for us it was just piecing it together in Quali. I think we had it in a pretty good window and the speed was there, it’s just a shame we had this issue. For tomorrow, it’s positive, we should be able to move forward. When you’re buried, it’s not ideal for tyres so it’s going to be quite tough, but I feel like we have the speed. The long run looks reasonably competitive, but everyone’s doing different things with tyres so let’s see tomorrow.