Today's team representatives press conference with Oliver Oakes, Zak Brown and Laurent Mekies.
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Today's pole was also two seconds quicker than last year's (1'34"723) and a little over seven tenths faster than the predicted time of 1'33"600
We have one car in a good position to fight for points and with the other one we will focus on fine tuning the setup for Qualifying and the race on Sunday.
We still have some work to do for the rest of the weekend, the main target is to be strong in the race and our long run pace looked very promising this morning.
As usual, it's very tight and we saw Mercedes and Verstappen much better on the Soft than the Medium, while it was the opposite for us, which bodes well for our race pace on Saturday and Sunday.
We can't avoid being disappointed with the performance in today's qualifying session, where Valtteri and Zhou struggled to find the right balance, particularly in the first sector.
There are usually opportunities in Sprint races, so we will do our best to be in a position to capitalise on those.
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