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On paper, a one-stopper from medium to hard is actually theoretically fastest, but we still think that most teams will be aiming for a two stopper.

The upgrade we have this weekend appears to be working, and is what allowed Lando to split the Mercedes today.

This pole feels special, because it's the result of a perfectly executed piece of teamwork.

A good but frustrating day for us today.

Ferrari had the advantage on us today but in the context of attacking the racetrack this weekend they are running a little bit more downforce and we are a bit more trimmed out.

We knew we were going to be the third quickest, as we have been all season and it's just not good enough for us.

We need to analyse how our strengths have evolved and where we need to improve with the updates we have brought here, but we can be happy to have closed the gap to McLaren and Alpine.

We're in the mix to score well with both cars for tomorrow's race on home turf.

We had good long-run performance yesterday so our target is to score points tomorrow.

Due to some PU penalties, we will now start from 13th and 18th. If the wind is favourable, then we can have a good race from there and look to score some points.

There's a long day ahead of us tomorrow: we will be making up a couple of places with the various penalties, and we know there can be overtakes here.

Today's team representatives press conference with James Key, Jan Monchaux, Mario Isola, Laurent Rossi, Jost Capito and Andrew Shovlin.

Playing the teammate role to perfection, Carlos Sainz assists Charles Leclerc in grabbing pole at Le Castellet, though Max Verstappen is confident his straight-line pace will pay off when it matters.

Times from today's qualifying session for the Lenovo Grand Prix de France.

Concerns over understeer and balance appear to vanish overnight as Mas Verstappen sets blistering pace in final practice.