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A constructive day (Ferrari)
‘The automobile felt a lot better, the whole lot began to return collectively, and my confidence grew lap by lap. It was actually optimistic to have such a robust second session, in all probability my greatest FP2 of the 12 months thus far, and reveals the progress we’re making. There are nonetheless just a few areas we are able to enhance for tomorrow, however I imagine we’re shifting in the best course.’
Fascinating Friday in Baku (Mercedes)
‘With a C6/C5/C4 tyre allocation right here in Azerbaijan, all groups had some powerful strategic choices to take at the moment. As we noticed in each Imola and Montreal with this choice, there was a probability that the medium tyre can be sooner over the only lap than the Smooth. With a protracted lap right here in Baku the place the rears usually undergo within the ultimate sector, this chance seemed to extend. We due to this fact opted to save lots of all of our mediums for Saturday and Sunday. That can maintain our choices open for qualifying and the grand prix. Hopefully that call will play out in our favour over the remainder of the weekend.’
Disrupted first day in Baku (Williams)
‘We appear to wrestle once more with the softer compound so we have to maintain on the lookout for one thing extra for quali. I feel tomorrow the smooth and medium tyres are going to be extraordinarily shut, so we’d see totally different approaches and it will spice issues up in qualifying.’
Observe recap (Haas)
‘Looking forward to qualifying we break up who ran which tire in FP2, I ran on softs whereas Ollie used mediums, and now we have to look into the info and see what our engineers say as to which possibility is greatest.’
The query we weren’t allowed to ask Liam Lawson in uncommon pre-race interview New Zealand media (Stuff)
‘Do you are feeling like you’re racing for a 2026 seat in these final eight races and is there any suggestions from both Racing Bulls (VCARB) or Purple Bull round that? It is essential to level out that the questions weren’t vetted by Lawson himself and it is extremely possible his staff has not even made him conscious it had declined them.’
“Okay, you are within the Alpine field.””So maintain driving, hearth up the engine once more…”Carlos Sainz Jnr failed to search out the Williams pit field when he got here in on the finish of his first run in observe. #F1 #AzerbaijanGP #RaceFans
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