Despite splitting the Ferraris in second practice, Lando Norris is philosophical in terms of what he expects from this weekend.
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We're just trying to understand the upgrade package on Kevin's car and there is work to be done - but at the moment, it looks promising.
It looks like tomorrow might be wet, so we'll have to adapt to the conditions. Today was a positive day for the team.
Amidst talk of the much-anticipated update resulting in a "white Ferrari", Haas boss, Guenther Steiner jokes "why would we copy Williams?"
As expected, it was a bit tricky around here today, we were trying to find the right balance from high to low speed, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't - there's a bit of work to do.
The team ended the day in the top ten and collected plenty of data for the engineers to crunch tonight.
As a result of the changing weather, the teams face some complex strategic decisions over the next couple of days.
Whilst we're disappointed with the pace in the afternoon, we've hopefully picked up some useful learning over the day.
Today was particularly challenging as the grip on-track was very low, which made things difficult for the drivers.
We were unable to find the expected increase in grip on the Soft tyre, so we need to understand why this was the case and update the setup for tomorrow to address it.
It is positive that we are still bringing updates to the car - we will look at the data tonight to see what impact they are having.
Still in "constructive discussion" with Porsche, Christian Horner insists that partnership with the German manufacturer is far from a done deal with many caveats.
On the face of it, Charles Leclerc and Ferrari appear to have this one in the bag, but with an eye over the weather tomorrow and Sunday is Red Bull playing thre long game?