The circuit characteristics of Monza are not especially suited to our car and it was always going to be a challenging qualifying session.
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It wasn't a fantastic day today. We simply have to regroup and hope we have a better day tomorrow.
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Once more, we have seen in free practice that all three compounds seem set to be valid options for the race on Sunday.
The car was pretty good today, we've been trying a few different things from FP1 to FP2. Some things worked and some didn't.
Both cars ran through their programmes at Monza without issue and we learned a lot across both low-fuel and high-fuel runs, making progress with set-up and defining our level of drag.
Our race pace looked stronger than our qualifying pace, so if we put it all together there is quite good potential to have a solid weekend.