Today's post-qualifying press conference with Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez.
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It was an unbelievable Qualifying from Max today, the lap time was so good he didn't need to do the second run.
The 44 laps of the Belgian Grand Prix can be tackled with either a one-stop or a two-stop strategy, although there are different permutations of one-stopper possible, along with a more aggressive two-stop strategy.
Given the circumstances we have made certain choices for today's qualifying which will hopefully benefit us in tomorrow's Grand Prix. Our full focus is now on that.
We're very happy with today's performance with Esteban fifth, Fernando sixth and, importantly, ahead of our rivals.
That was a very disappointing qualifying result, no matter that penalties for other cars tomorrow will push us up the grid.
Today's press conference with Nikolas Tombazis (FIA), Christian Horner, Hywel Thomas (Mercedes), Mike Krack, Otmar Szafnauer and Andreas Seidl.
Tomorrow's race should be quite exciting and there shouldn't be a shortage of opportunities to take - we'll need to be ready to make the most of them.
There is plenty still to play for in terms of trying to get into the points with Pierre and also getting Yuki moving forward tomorrow.
Both cars will inherit some grid positions once the penalties are applied and whilst this will help the race start, it does mean that we will need to play a fairly defensive strategy tomorrow.
The larger than normal number of penalties incurred by drivers ahead of us leave us in P9 and P10 on tomorrow's grid. Our aim will therefore be to try to hold on to points-scoring positions for both drivers.
Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen qualified 15th and 18th respectively for the Belgian Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen is quickest in qualifying for Belgian Grand Prix, but penalties mean Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez claim the front row as Lewis Hamilton is left speechless at 1.8s gap to the world champion.