The car behaved consistently in the stint, which is promising for tomorrow, looking ahead to the race.
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Looking ahead to tomorrow's race, we can say that a two stop will be the favourite strategy, running a combination of Medium and Hard, depending on how many sets of the two compounds each driver has available.
The car performed well today, and we should be able to transform that into a good race performance tomorrow.
It was a strong sprint race for us and will provide a lot of data around performance of the tyres and our opponents.
We can't be completely satisfied with today's race but these 19 laps were above all useful to give us a clearer picture of the situation, of where the teams stand and our options when we line up on the grid tomorrow.
The hard work will continue ahead of tomorrow and we will see how we can put ourselves in the mix for strong points.
We can be carefully optimistic with how the weekend has gone so far and how our updates have performed.
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Today's post-qualifying press conference with Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton.