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Times from the final free practice session for the MSC Cruises Gran Premio del Made in Italy a dell'Emilia Romagna.

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It's been a little bit of a mixed day for us.

Given the tricky conditions, we had to make some compromises in terms of setup, and only partly began evaluating the new bits on our car, which will be the main task for FP3.

The Medium and Hard tyres proved very competitive in terms of performance over a long run, while the Soft, especially in very high temperatures, could turn out to be quite tricky to manage over a large number of laps.

We tried a few things in the simulator last week in preparation for this race weekend and those tests appear to have worked quite well on track today.

It has been a positive day overall. Everything went smoothly and we ran all the tests we planned on track.

On high-fuel, our limitations are pretty clear so we'll work on that tonight.

We have a lot of fine tuning to do before Qualifying tomorrow but both drivers are confident that we will have a competitive package.

Overall, a productive day without major issues on either car, with the exception of a small electronic glitch on Lando's car.

It was a difficult day today.

We've had a productive day today. The car has been working well across the two sessions and we have been able to improve on the balance over the course of the day.