While grabbing pole position may have caused Lewis Hamilton to rethink his stance on the new qualifying format, rivals feel that it needs a review.
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Fernando Alonso believes that the new construction of tyre introduced at Silverstone is causing problems for Aston Martin and some of its rivals.
Toto Wolff says that a new contract with Lewis Hamilton, though as yet unsigned, is "emotionally done".
Today's post-qualifying press conference with Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.
A positive day for McLaren, with Lando in P3 and Oscar P4 at the end of what was an interesting qualifying session with the new ATA format.
It will be 10 degrees hotter which will make things interesting, especially with the balance, but we tend to have better race pace than we do in qualifying so lets see what tomorrow brings.
This was a very interesting qualifying, with the new format posing various challenges for the drivers. It made for even closer times and more unpredictability than at previous events.
Lewis drove an amazing lap and put it on pole. If you give him a car, that's what he can do.
We surely have a good reason to be happy with ourselves today, and we will make sure to carry this motivation into tomorrow's race, which is when it counts.
We had the potential to be slightly higher up the grid today, but some of our competitors have closed the gap and have found some speed.
Our performance today has nothing to do with the new format, which is the same for everybody.
Although overtaking is traditionally difficult here, there will still be opportunities to make progress and we have a race car that can do just that.
In Formula 1 these days, anything can happen, it's all over the place but in a good way.