We're happy with how today went. We needed a little bit of happiness and at least for Saturday, we've got some of that.
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We definitely had the pace today to have both cars in Q3, so it's disappointing not to have achieved that with Esteban out in Q2.
We head into tomorrow's race feeling confident with our race pace and ready to fight once again.
There is still a lot of work to improve the car, but we can see that the floor update we brought to this event has delivered a step in aero performance broadly in line with our expectations.
Tomorrow we start P10 and P14 and everything seems to be going to plan. The mission is to get points.
Our indications from practice and the evaluation of the upgrades were rather positive, so it's certainly disappointing to have both cars out in Q1.
An entertaining qualifying session sees Max Verstappen edge out the Mercedes pair, while Sergio Perez' Melbourne misery continues.
Max Verstappen tops the Melbourne timesheets in final practice as teammate Sergio Perez has the session from hell.
Today's press conference with Otmar Szafnauer, Guenther Steiner, Mario Isola, Mike Krack, Zak Brown and Christian Horner.
There's one free practice session left before qualifying that will give drivers a chance to carry out the long runs that have been missing so far, in weather conditions that should be better.
As the tinkering continues, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sprint weekend looks likely to feature two qualifying sessions.
Red Bull boss, Christian Horner has described the decision to hold a Sprint event at Baku, a street circuit, as ludicrous.
We explored quite a few set-up variations today, which was interesting as it felt like we were going in a right direction. That doesn't mean that we have the same pace as our competitors, as they still seem to have the upper hand for now.