It is going to be close in qualifying and the race will require a lot of management, but we should be able to get ourselves into a strong position.
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Going into this event the difference between a one and a two stop strategy was very tight, today the balance is definitely swinging in favour of the latter."
The tyre degradation is high, but the grip level is low, so, there's a few things we need to look into tonight, but overall the MCL60 seems to be behaving well.
There's a lot of degradation on this track so it will be quite tough on tyres during the race, but so far, we've had a good start to the weekend.
We seem to be slightly closer to our competitors than expected, so it was quite a positive day overall.
It's an extremely tight pack with one or two tenths of a second splitting a lot of cars, so extracting every detail tomorrow will count.
We've certainly been on the back foot today. Both FP1 and FP2 proved tricky sessions for us.
Max Verstappen is quickest in second practice session at Suzuka, ahead of Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris as Pierre Gasly brings session to an early close.
It's business as usual at Suzuka as Max Verstappen out-paces his nearest opposition - Singapore victor Carlos Sainz - by 0.626s.