It was a productive day of running: we covered a good number of laps and found a decent balance with the car.
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Tomorrow's expected weather influenced free practice today, with the drivers concentrating more on collecting plenty of data over all three compounds as well as setting a lap time just in case FP2 has an influence on the grid positions for the race.
We had to try and do as much work as possible today knowing that tomorrow's weather looks very unsettled.
We thought it would be best to take the engine penalty here, we took everything into account before making the decision and we of course considered the weather for tomorrow.
The feeling with the car is ok, but we'll need to see what happens in qualifying to see where we stack up against the others.
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