“The Team put in a lot of effort since this morning to find a step in performance and pace. It was great to see that translate on track. It’s a shame we had a lap deleted in SQ3. It’s one position, but we now need to make up two places for points tomorrow. However, we’re very happy with the step we made. Of course, there’s always more to extract and we’ll work on that overnight. We did a brief long run this morning, so will go through those numbers, and try to move forward. It’s very close with Alpine, Haas and us on track tomorrow, and we’re fighting each other in the Constructors, so the Sprint is very important, and we can take confidence from today.”
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We can take confidence from today.
Liam Lawson
Yuki
First Practice Session
Best Lap - 1:23.045
Position - 5
Laps Completed - 27
Sprint Qualifying
SQ1 - 1:22.722
Position - 17
“It was a tough Sprint Qualifying today and I think we deserved more from it. I did what I could, but unfortunately, we haven’t been able to maximise our performance. I still think we have the right potential with our car here in Qatar so for sure we could have done better than that. I didn’t do any mistakes and I know what happened, so I’ll have a look tonight together with the team to try and get some learning from today.”
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I still think we have the right potential with our car here in Qatar.
Alan Permane (Racing Director)
“Congratulations to Liam for making it to SQ3. He improved with every lap, as did his understanding of the track, car and tyres, putting it all together to get into the top 10. He was a bit unlucky to lose a lap time by exceeding track limits at T6 by a few millimetres, but I’m sure he can have a decent Sprint tomorrow. Yuki was super fast this morning, no real issues with the car, very happy with the balance, but then he lost quite a big chunk of time in the very high speed section through turns 12, 13 and 14 and that meant his lap wasn’t fast enough to get him out of SQ1. Now, we will take a good look at all the data to ensure he has a car that lets him perform not only in the Sprint race, but in tomorrow’s qualifying.”
