“It has really been a tough Friday for us, as we had a problem in the first session with the front of the car, which we solved, and then, in the second session, we had gearbox difficulties. I’m now looking forward to tomorrow in order to do some proper tyre runs and to complete our pre-qualifying technical programme. Hopefully, the weather will be dry in the morning because I had no track time today.”

“I’ve only done 15 flying laps so far this weekend, with four of those in qualifying, so to have finished up just over three-and-a-half seconds off the pole position time this afternoon is probably not such a bad result. I’m really pleased with the guys, who have worked hard to sort out some technical issues on the car yesterday and today. This is a difficult track for our package, so all in all, to have recovered as well as we have is pleasing.”

“Again, it has been a trying weekend for us. We had a few issues on Friday in the first session, which lost us time in the second session, and also in the untimed session on Saturday morning. Qualifying went well for us, and the warm-up today wasn’t bad either. We had quite a bit of fuel in the car this morning and so we were looking forward to the race. It was going okay up until we had a gearbox problem. It’s unfortunate I couldn’t do more laps at a track that I enjoy, but we’ve had a very good finishing record this season, and you cannot expect to finish every single race. This is one of the rare occasions the car has caused us some problems.”