On the face of it, we feel we could have done marginally better than ninth and tenth. That said, we can draw on the positives as both cars are back in Q3
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We know in Mexico that altitude is a real challenge for all the car's systems, so tomorrow we will try to do our best to maximise the possibilities available to get some points.
We are not starting as far forward as we had hoped, however, tomorrow will be a race of attrition as well as pace and we will be looking to move forwards and fighting until the chequered flag.
After the final practice this morning it looked like we might be in the fight for pole; in the end, the gap at the end to Max was a bit bigger than we had hoped for.
Max Verstappen claims pole in Mexico as Mercedes drivers rue mistakes, local hero Sergio Perez claims fourth and Valtteri Bottas splits struggling Ferraris.
It has been a bit of a struggle for us all weekend, and qualifying today was no exception.
Red Bull and Ferrari struggle in final practice as Mercedes form suggests we could witness a six-way battle for supremacy in qualifying and on Sunday.
Today's press conference with Andrew Shovlin, Laurent Mekies, Alan Permane, Franz Tost, Frederic Vasseur and Mike Krack.
Helmut Marko claims that the 10% reduction in permitted aero testing will put Red Bull at an "enormous disadvantage".
Ferrari's sporting director, Laurent Mekies says the Italian team is not happy with the leniency shown to Red Bull over its budget cap breach, while contradicting Christian Horner's claim that the (10%) reduction on aero testing will hurt.
The drivers ran mainly the hard and the soft tyres today; we had a bit of sliding on the hard but contained degradation on the soft, which means that it should make an interesting race tyre.