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Today's team representatives press conference with Tom McCullough, Marco Perrone, James Allison, Alessandro Alunni Bravi, James Vowles and Frederic Vasseur.
Charles Leclerc edges out Max Verstappen for pole position for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a session that witnessed further red flag stoppages.
Red flag stoppage does little to ease the tension as drivers begin to appreciate the pressure that the revised Sprint weekend format entails.
Today's press conference with Esteban Ocon, Yuki Tsunoda, Kevin Magnussen, Lando Norris, Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas, Lance Stroll, Carlos Sainz, Lewis Hamilton and Alex Albon.
Franz Tost is to step down as AlphaTauri team principal at the end of the year, with Ferrari sporting director, Laurent Mekies set to replace him.
Baku is a challenging track to get right. As it's a street circuit with long straights, it gives us multiple options on what wings we can run.
In Australia, we had already made a step forward in terms of pure performance and for Azerbaijan, we expect to move on from there.
Over the next races, we want to keep on making small steps forward. The car will continue to evolve in the coming weeks, as we steadily bring performance and upgrades to the track.
The FW45 should be well suited to the layout in Azerbaijan, but we will need to be agile and pragmatic to get the most out of it given the track resurfacing, the cooler temperatures and the lack of free practice time.
After three races we know our car better, but we need to pick-up where we left off in Australia and keep up the development push over the next few races.
Baku demands a lot of straight-line speed and so far, our straight-line speed has not been that competitive. Let's wait and see how it works out.