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.
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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.
We've been able to bring a few updates to this race which will hopefully help nudge us in the right direction; certainly, the car seems be working reasonably well.
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