From what we have seen so far, the compounds that would seem best suited for use in the race are the Medium and the Hard, as the Soft does not deliver a big performance advantage.
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We need to get some work done tonight and make a step forward to be as competitive as we can be in qualifying.
It seems like we have a bit of work to do overnight to find some pace, especially in Sectors 2 and 3.
We are satisfied that we have made a solid start and we can look to build on this over the next two days.
The car looks to be back on the pace this weekend and the track characteristics seem to be suiting us better.
We need to see what happens when everyone turns up their engines for qualifying, from our side we can do a better job but also today hasn't been the end of the world.
It's been a messy day, partly with red flags but also because we've not got the car in a good place at the moment.
Top six are covered by just 0.361s in a second session disrupted by red flags following a technical issue for Stroll and an off for Perez.
Once again ATA limits running as big guns opt to save the softer compounds for the remainder of the weekend.
Today's press conference with Sergio Perez, Nico Hulkenberg, Valtteri Bottas, Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc, Alex Albon, Lewis Hamilton, Esteban Ocon, Oscar Piastri and Yuki Tsunoda.