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"No chance," says McLaren driver when asked if a podium is possible in China.

Starting the Chinese Grand Prix from 18th, Lewis Hamilton still targets having some fun.

Today's post-qualifying press conference with Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso.

Aston Martin's formal protest of Carlos Sainz' continued participation in today's qualifying session has been dismissed.

We saw in the Sprint that the challenge becomes more difficult across a race stint. We have to improve this, and have already made some set-up tweaks between Sprint and qualifying today.

With Valtteri being in a good position to score points and with a good balance of the car, we are all motivated to execute a good race and play our cards in the race tomorrow.

It's been tough.

The Sprint Race clearly demonstrated the good performance level of the Medium tyre and thanks to Russell, we saw that the Soft cannot be discounted as a possible compound to use in the race.

The win in the Sprint, locking out the front row and securing our 100th pole, fifteen years after our first pole at this very track is really a performance to be proud of.

Hopefully, the setup changes will improve our race pace too and we can then race the cars starting ahead of us.

The drivers managed the tyres well and kept them alive to the end, allowing them to make moves in the final laps, which could be crucial in the Grand Prix tomorrow.

We were expecting a better result to be honest.

It is a weekend where learning quickly has been paramount and, as a team, we have responded well to the challenge of fast-evolving conditions.

In terms of speed - we're missing, but with tire degradation we weren't too bad.

Ultimately, we knew that we had outperformed where the true pace of our car was in the Sprint.