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00:00I'm just a bit gobsmacked. I was a bit taken back by it
00:05Yeah, I didn't know when we would get to this position and
00:10They know when we'll get to this position and
00:15Huh, you know after last weekend it was
00:20Difficult week start to the week and
00:22And
00:24Come here with just aggression and wanting to go into the weekend and really get the car into a great great place and I've
00:30started started out straight away with a better feeling in the car and
00:34Just I can't believe that we're at the front. I'm very happy. Yeah, I mean I do think that in the first practice
00:42We were quite a bit off
00:44So I'm very happy to be on on the front row. Honestly, yeah, that was very good. So it's very tough
00:50When you go from a medium to a soft, you know to nail the lap with no references, but
00:55Yeah, I mean, of course when you look at it, you know, like it was 18 thousands or something off pole
01:00But I don't think we should have even been on the front row
01:02Anyway, so I'm very happy to be second q1 and 2 felt felt good. And then
01:09Yeah, sq3. We we tried something a bit different and when went out much earlier and tried two laps, which
01:16I'm not sure was
01:20Yeah was the best thing in the end, but I think it's something we need to have a look at but
01:26Yeah, I think the the pace in the car is still very strong and I'm still still confident to fight from third time
01:31I've struggled on my side of the garage
01:35From the beginning. I felt like I was a step back compared to to Lewis and Lewis was just faster today
01:41Struggled a lot in turn one two three, which was more or less the same struggles I had last year
01:45So that's a bit of a shame. But apart from that my everything was quite tight. So
01:49Obviously, it's a shame. We start before but Lewis is on pole and hopefully we can have a good race
01:55Together tomorrow. It's pretty happy with with the lap in q3 world under Lewis to get pole. That was a pretty great lap
02:02I
02:03Think p5 was where we were were today. It was strange in q2 at one moment
02:07I was outside the top ten the next I jumped up to to p2 and
02:11It didn't feel any different to be honest. So
02:15You know, we always know it's a bit tricky with the tires and with the sprint race
02:19You've only got so few laps. You gotta really nail it and today we did did okay. No, I made a mistake
02:25I locked up in the last corner
02:28But yeah, we just struggled a bit more now just not not quick enough simply struggled a lot with the car so
02:35Yeah, just our difficulties that we've been struggling with showed a lot more today. So
02:40Nothing more than that. Honestly just too many mistakes, but just too difficult of a car to drive
02:46I mean it was it was looking good
02:47I think you know sq2 was pretty tight and I was feeling good with the car and
02:53But yeah, I'm soft. I really struggle in that first lap
02:57Especially I felt the grip was very poor
02:59I think warmup was not optimal on my side and when I started the lap
03:03The the tire were too cold and I really struggled during the whole lap to be honest to a strike grip
03:09But yeah still, you know better qualifying than Melbourne for sure and we'll see what we can do tomorrow
03:15Happy with the result obviously how it came came out
03:20still I
03:22Would say we could have probably a couple of things better in terms of in terms of setup. I think didn't feel 100%
03:30Able to extract him from the extractive performance more car. So we have to look through it pretty happy
03:35I think we have a bit of work to do with the car and I
03:40Think this track isn't quite suiting us at the minute
03:43You need to make some changes
03:45Well, obviously we can't for the sprint race, but but afterwards to just tie up the balance high speed low speed a bit better
03:51Tires are not that easy to know what to do with them. I think the tires have seen it this year so far very sensitive
03:57and so non corners like they are in China tend to make them ties work a bit harder and it's
04:03Hard to get them into a good place. So
04:06We'll do some work overnight and try and get back stronger tomorrow. Yeah, if we could have signed up to be in
04:12Sq3 before the session we would have so I think it was a good good session. Yeah, it was good. Very good
04:18Very happy with qualifying q1, especially was mega the very first lap. We were like p2
04:23for most of q1 and
04:25Yeah, unfortunately, the qualifiers are too long now and we do too many laps and too many set of tires
04:31It would be nice to go back to one shot only and and that will benefit us. But yeah all in all
04:37Competitive car today, so we felt fast at the age of q3 and with one car in q3
04:42So yeah, it's looking good for the rest of the weekend. Yeah happy with with the feeling underneath me today
04:48From the first lap in fp1. I knew it would be a bit of a better weekend than what we had in Melbourne
04:53I felt comfortable with the car straightaway, which is always a nice start to the weekend
04:57And we managed to show a bit of pace out there today. It's been a tough day up until now
05:02We're struggling with some balance problems and especially coming down to q2
05:07Not knowing exactly where to find the lap time and a bit of overdriving and a bit of a problem with the seat that
05:13So yeah a bit too many issues, which meant we couldn't go through but we'll try and learn from it
05:19So we can apply it tomorrow for the day that counts in quali. Yeah, it was a decent quali
05:24Q1 was it's a good lap the first lap the second push lap. I actually did my best so
05:30You know building up the confidence through the weekend, I think fp we were a bit behind and then we did some steps ahead
05:38Improving every every session every lap and getting the confidence back
05:42With the car and yeah, it was a decent session in q2
05:45Unfortunately, I was not able to improve six tenths to go to q3
05:48I know honestly don't think I could do it. But yeah, I'm trying to do the best lap I could
05:53I think everyone out there is really struggling here
05:56It's really tough on the tires on the entry and just overheat throughout the corner and I know I
06:02I know I knew I had only one lap in sq2
06:06and
06:08Overdid it because I knew to go to qsq3. I had to to put a good lap in and
06:13It was just a bit too much still digesting it
06:15I think this combination of things a bit of traffic a few cars just not where we wanted them to be. But
06:21Yeah, all in all it's something that we're gonna have to just look into and see how we can improve it
06:24Luckily, we have another shot at quality tomorrow afternoon. It's
06:28Frustrating because the car felt good and we had a actually some good pace
06:33Turn one. I don't know what's happened on we had a alpha tire that just I don't know if they didn't
06:40communicate that we were coming but
06:42unfortunately, just sat on the line at the apex of turn one and I had to
06:47Go all the way in the outside on the dust in turn one and and lost three four tenths already to start the lap. So
06:54when it's such fine margins, it's
06:57it's for sure very costly and yeah, it's just
07:01I'm just disappointed for the guys because I think we we
07:04We made some good steps from from fp1 and we should be fighting for to get into the sq3
07:09So it is disappointing for sure, but I think it's very positive because obviously all is out there now
07:14And we look to be more in the mix, you know compared to melbourne
07:17So I think you know, we definitely found some pace as a team and and that's that's very positive on my side
07:22Yeah, we need to look at what went wrong in this in this short session
07:27We had some damage in p1 on the floor
07:29Which made us lose, you know quite a lot of downforce
07:33So we need to see if we recover that obviously now in qualifying
07:35It was strange because I think the first lap was kind of all right
07:38It was looking good
07:39It was strange because I think the first lap was kind of all right
07:41It was looking good. But in the second lap a lot of people found quite a bit of lap time and we didn't so
07:46A strange one need to look into you know, why why that happened?
07:50You know and what went wrong there, uh this morning, you know, it looked obviously pretty promising and good but uh, yeah
07:56Somehow we didn't manage to uh to repeat that. Yeah, it's obviously a shame. Um
08:02I think from a starting point it wasn't too bad. The first lap was all right
08:06um
08:06and then we were just looking to to build on there, but um
08:10We stayed out to to try call the tires on track and to be honest
08:14I I really struggled to get the temps down start in the second lap. So, um
08:19Basically, I just we started too hot and then through the lap. I just struggled and then um
08:24Yeah, it's it's frustrating