We're expecting it to be tough tomorrow but it's another encouraging sign that we are slowly but surely moving in the right direction and further motivation to the team to keep up the hard work.
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It was a disappointing qualification. Firstly losing Checo in Q2 after encountering some traffic and then unfortunately Max suffering technical issues.
We're happy with our Qualifying effort today with both cars inside the top six and in a great position to be competitive for tomorrow's race.
Today's team representatives press conference with Andreas Seidl, Christian Horner, Mike Krack, Franz Tost, Laurent Mekies and Alan Permane.
Eighth place with Valtteri and Zhou missing on Q3 for the smallest margin, little more than 0.1s, is nearly as good a result as we would have hoped before the session and a good starting point for tomorrow.
A frustrating Qualifying today as both cars had the pace for Q2, but we did not manage to get either there.
We're focused now on tomorrow, we'll hopefully get a good start as we normally do and try to put ourselves in the position to score points.
There could be further rain tomorrow and as we have seen here many times before, a lot can happen in the race; we'll be ready to take any opportunity that we get.
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