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Nicholas Latifi:
"It was very tricky out there with very unique track conditions. I have
always
wondered what it is like to drive a Formula One car on ice, and I didn’t
have to go to Finland to find that out! Overall, it was a pretty fun
day, there was not a lap that didn’t feel like you had to constantly
work. In terms of car set-up and the direction, you have to take
everything with a pinch of salt as the track is going to keep improving.
We have already seen the improvements that we have made between FP1 and
FP2 and that is going to continue as the track is going to keep
rubbering in. We have our work cut out to see how we manage and balance
that and how much we react to what we felt today versus what we
anticipate. We possibly may get some rain tomorrow which could mix
things up a bit. I don’t know if that will be a good or bad thing as it
may clear the rubber off, but it also may help extract the oil from the
tarmac. Nonetheless I think it will be a very exciting Saturday and
Sunday." |
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George Russell:
"It was incredible, I have never ever experienced anything like this in
a race car. I hope the track rubbers in a bit tomorrow, gets faster and
more grippy because it was not fun out
there. It is going to be a massive window of opportunity for everybody
this weekend if you get it right though. We struggled to get the tyres
switched on in FP1, but we got them working in FP2, and from then the
car was feeling great and our long high fuel pace was really strong. It
is a shame we will be starting at the back, but there is optimism
because there will potentially be big gaps between cars. Because of our
strong Saturday performances, we’ve then been battling with faster cars
behind us on Sundays, so I am excited to be the one attacking now and
see what we can do in the race." |
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Dave Robson, Senior Race Engineer:
"Today was a difficult day throughout, with the tyres really struggling
to generate temperature on the new track surface. This caused a few
issues this morning and prevented us from doing any useful testing. The
programme was adapted to allow us to learn what we could, but it was
still a very difficult session.
We made some changes to the car for FP2 to try and improve the tyre
performance and this, along with the natural track improvement, was a
good step forwards from the morning. Nonetheless, it remained very
difficult with both drivers spinning on high fuel as they looked for the
limit at this tricky circuit. Exactly how the track and the weather will
behave tomorrow is still a bit uncertain and so we will need to remain
agile tomorrow. We will study the data collected today to give us a menu
of options to try tomorrow. With George likely to start from the back of
the grid on Sunday then his priorities for tomorrow are a little
different to Nicholas, but overall, we will probably still be
concentrating on maximising tyre performance." |
