The performance of the car seems slightly better for us here in Austin so far and it's our third Q2 of the season. We will start a little higher thanks to some penalties around us, but that does put us out of our natural position. I think we could be defending more than attacking, but anything can happen here and it should be an interesting race.

I felt pretty good in the car yesterday, but we lost a lot of running today in FP3 because of kerb damage, which limited our progress. In Qualifying I had a lot of oversteer and no rear grip. It was the most challenging session of the weekend so far. We’ll look for opportunities tomorrow.

After reviewing the data at HRC Sakura and trackside overnight, we made some changes to our energy management to maximise our power unit performance for practice and qualifying. We also made tweaks to our data tuning and driveability. The gains are marginal, but these steps are important, nonetheless.