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Alpine boss, Otmar Szafnauer has confirmed that his team is working to improve its communications with its drivers following Pierre Gasly's penalties in Spain.
Such is the extent of the MCL60's upgrade that it will be introduced over a number of races and will involve "every single aerodynamic part".
Today's press conference with Pierre Wache, James Allison, Dan Fallows, Otmar Szafnauer, Andrea Stella and James Vowles.
Uncertainty over the weather is an important element to consider, with rain expected tomorrow, while Sunday should see a dry race.
There are areas of improvement we will focus on overnight, including trying to find more rear end for both the single lap and long runs.
Our running today was limited and we must target a much smoother Free Practice 3 tomorrow to put ourselves in the best possible position ahead of Qualifying.
Based on today, our car has the potential to make it into Q3, so that will be what we'll be working towards.
Overall, we were expecting a bit more pace than we showed, but given the dense programme, we didn't focus on setup changes.
FP2 wasn't ideal because Nico's ICU expired, shortening his session, and we only had one car to gather data and we had a lot of stuff we wanted to test. We didn't get any definitive answers.
We couldn't do everything that we wanted but despite that, we've gained a good understanding of performance potential, set-up direction and the behaviour of the tyres.
It's only Friday and there is still a long way to go, but overall, it has been a positive day.
We didn't have a lot of time to fully understand the new upgrades, so we will have to analyse everything overnight and learn more tomorrow.
We still have quite a bit of work to do as the car isn't fantastic at the moment over the bumps and kerbs.
The upgrades ran well on Alex's car and will remain fitted for the rest of the weekend.