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Today's press conference with Jost Capito and Guenther Steiner.

In terms of qualifying pace, we still haven't found the small step we need in order to be further ahead.

The tyre behaviour is similar to last week and the softer C5 compound, which we have this weekend as the Soft tyre, was working quite well straightaway.

A busy day today, with a programme containing lots of running and lots of tests.

It has been a good day for us.

As Honda insists that improved performance is down to hard work and a better understanding, Lewis Hamilton insists that the latest power unit has "something extra".

As expected with the softer compounds, we had some graining on the soft tyre in particular, which suggests that we might see some quite different strategies compared to last weekend.

Overall, it hasn't been a bad day.

We've been busy this week trying to find improvements on both the chassis and the power unit and from today's running it does look like we've made some steps in the right direction.

Mercedes looked quite quick on the soft so we just have to make sure we have a little more pace on that compound because we looked stronger on the medium and in the long runs.

We appeared to have more degradation than our competitors, so this will be the area we need to spend the most time analysing tonight.

The tyres are a step softer this weekend, we'll work through everything tonight to see what choices we can make for the rest of the weekend.

Everyone knows the track really well after last week so we won't find out until tomorrow where everyone really is.

Honda's F1 Technical Director, Toyoharu Tanabe has responded to Mercedes continued hints at a performance boost.

Mercedes fight back begins as Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas edge out Max Verstappen in second practice session.