Overall this weekend has been quite positive for us. As soon as I jumped in the car in FP1 the balance was there and I was fairly happy with our overall performance. FP2 was slightly trickier but in Qualifying we made the right call with the tyres as we felt better with the mediums. I feel like the balance of the car was there and we maximised our performance. We need to understand more about the degradation of our tyres and what was going on there as we were missing overall grip to fight for Pole. However, I don’t think there was much more we could have really done today and I’m happy with second. Hopefully tomorrow we can have a good start and look after our tyres. Our car can be trickier in the corners but there will be a long race ahead of us and hopefully it will be a strong race for us.

I didn’t feel happy with the car today, as the balance wasn’t really together, but despite this, I think we did a solid job to bring the car to Q3. I feel like the pure pace is still good, but overall, during this weekend, it has been much harder to put a lap together compared to previous tracks. In Q1, I was told Carlos had aborted his lap, whilst instead, he was still in a push lap. That was unfortunate and I’m really sorry for him. We’re going to be aggressive like always in the race tomorrow, but it will be important to keep an eye on the tyres situation as the graining is heavy here, even if the track is getting better day after day. I can expect overtaking to be difficult in the race, but I think it’s going to be an interesting race and hopefully, we’ll still be able to fight for points.

Tough day overall for us. We had an issue during FP3 so unfortunately we missed a lot of valuable running time during the final practice session. We brought some upgrades from yesterday and it was definitely a positive switch, I could feel more speed in the car and I have identified where I can improve on certain corners. I still feel like I haven’t had the time to build full confidence in the car, especially as the car behaviour was different than in FP2. I only had a few push laps with the changes before we had Qualifying, but The Team did a good job with the balance of the car. Considering the changes, P11 was a decent result and we only narrowly missed out on Q3. Unfortunately, the penalty from FP3 dropped us to P20. It was an unfortunate circumstance but it is what it is. I will do what I can tomorrow to make up positions during the race, but we were hoping to be in a better starting position than we are.

We've been struggling to make the tyres work on the first lap all weekend. We committed to doing a build lap at the start of Q1 to keep them in the right window, however we didn't do a build lap for the last run. This meant we didn't have much grip through the lap, which is a shame as the car has been fast all weekend. I really enjoy the track and, as always, will be giving it my all tomorrow. We keep pushing.