

We’ll do important work overnight and be ready for tomorrow. We had a decent long run with the Medium tyre and the car was pretty consistent, you could feel the new faster corners stressing the rear axle a little more than before. We changed the car quite a bit from FP1 to FP2 and it felt like a step forward so I’m comfortable overall with the car, but none of the laps today were amazing so there should still be more to come. When I had a little moment on track, I went off-line where it’s very dusty and I was a little too wide on the kerbs before that corner and paid for it in the next one – a nice drift! It was nice to get a feel of the modified layout, the track feels better than before with more flow and some increased overtaking opportunities. Overall I feel good, I feel great in my body and we made some positive steps setup-wise so we’ll try to perfect it tonight and come back hard tomorrow. On my long run, I was trying to follow the car ahead and it still wasn’t easy here but it should be better than in the past. Now we just need to crunch through the data and try to figure out how we can improve, the target is always moving. In FP2, it was little better with some of the changes we made.

The car doesn’t feel too bad, it started off in a good place and then got a bit worse in FP1. It’s obviously close between us all and a little unknown in terms of relative pace but I’m sure it’s going to be super close, as it has been in the previous races. It’s been a decent day, I like the changes they’ve made to the track – it’s made it free-flowing and more enjoyable.
