Today's press conference with Otmar Szafnauer, Andrea Stella, Franz Tost, Xevi Pujolar, Dave Robson and Andrew Shovlin.
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The car is a lot better here than it was last year, but the Hungaroring still doesn't suit the natural strengths of the FW45.
A very initial look at the data suggests the performance difference between the Soft and the Medium is in line with expectations at around four to five tenths.
There's plenty of work to do with the car balance on both the single lap and long run, which is useful as the field is looking very tight.
We'll work as usual overnight to analyse what we have learned and prepare as well as we can for what will be an interesting debut of the Alternative Tyre Allocation format.
The updates we've brought are working, and we look forward to seeing what we can achieve in qualifying tomorrow.
It was a good day overall, although it is still difficult to read into the other teams' performance as everyone is running different programmes in light of the new format.
We need to go through the data of what we've seen because we had the cars on different specifications, but all-in-all not unhappy.
It is very hard to comment on the new upgrades after a limited amount of running, we will look through the data to see if everything is correlating well because we haven't actually used a lot of tyre sets today.
We can be satisfied with our start to the weekend, both cars have run consistently and competitively today.
There are still a few changes we can make ahead of qualifying, so we'll work through our learnings tonight and look forward to tomorrow.
Second practice session in Hungary poses more questions than it answers as teams use a wide mixture of strategies with race and new qualifying format in mind.
Times from today's second free practice session for the Qatar Airways Hungarian Grand Prix.
"I cannot believe this," sighs Sergio Perez as he crashes out just moments into the opening session in Hungary.