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Friday's team representative's press conference with Toto Wolff, Zak Brown, Guenther Steiner and Mike Krack.

We're in a position to score good points on Sunday. We also have all the Sprint Saturday ahead of us, and a car with promising pace.

One important aspect is that none of the three compounds showed any signs of graining despite the very high temperatures, with the track comfortably exceeding the 40 degrees C mark.

So far, our performance has matched our expectations, we are competitive over the whole lap, although it is too early to have a clear picture about the race.

Today has been a positive qualifying session for us, even going beyond our initial performance expectations.

We start from P6 and P9 for the race which makes things a little harder for us but there is always an opportunity for victory and we look forward to seeing what Sunday brings.

It was a very close Qualifying session and we did not optimise things today. Our grid positions don't reflect our true potential.

We introduced some new aerodynamic parts, which is never straightforward during a Sprint weekend, but with the gaps between teams being so small, we need everything we can take.

Insisting that his team will benefit the sport and the existing teams, Michael Andretti admits that he is at a loss to explain the opposition to his bid to enter F1.

The long runs of both drivers looked good this morning in FP1. It's hard to know what fuel loads everyone was running with this format, but we're optimistic we can race well.

There was probably a bit more on the table today but, nonetheless, we are in a great starting position for Sunday's race.

There is promise there, we just need to work on it a little more, but we know we can get there.

The balance of the car changed quite a lot from one session to the next, which is not what we had expected.

Jack Doohan is to drive the Alpine in the opening practice session at the forthcoming grands prix in Mexico and Abu Dhabi.

Charles Leclerc edges out Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton for United States GP pole as an unusually scrappy Max Verstappen can only manage sixth.