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Times from the final free practice session for the Heineken Dutch Grand Prix.

Daniel Ricciardo says he had a clear choice as he approached Turn 3 in FP2, either to hit the crashed car of countryman Oscar Piastri or the wall.

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri admits that his first big shunt in F1 was inevitable.

It has all happened very quickly, but Liam has shown he is more than ready to step up to the challenge, and he has the whole team behind him.

Today's press conference with Franz Tost, Guenther Steiner, James Vowles, Enrico Cardile, Paul Monaghan and Tom McCullough.

The upgrades to the AMR23 feel good, although we didn't complete the programme that we were hoping to.

We know we need to execute our job to perfection to maximise our qualifying position, but we can be in the mix for a good result.

Daniel Ricciardo will play no further part in this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix after injuring his hand in an accident in FP2.

It was a difficult day for us overall.

There's a couple of things we want to fine tune like the balance, but on the whole it was handling well, even on the long runs.

Overall, we seem to be in a decent place, so we will do our best to be ready for qualifying and the race.

The pace of the car wasn't too bad today but it's always difficult to know here as cars don't always get clear laps and the tyres can be tricky to manage.

The situation is very open when it comes to Sunday's tyre choice, which means a more interesting and uncertain weekend is in prospect.

We'll see what the data says about the new parts that we've brought as we haven't got all conclusions yet, but we're obviously not happy with the pace shown in FP1 and FP2.

We have made a reasonable start to the weekend, we've given ourselves a strong base to work from looking ahead to Saturday and Sunday.