We find ourselves slightly back from where we want to be, but laps time deltas to the cars around us are small and the team is pushing hard to extract everything from the car.
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We looked competitive in our race runs on Friday, so we'll fight hard to stay in the points tomorrow.
Unfortunately a rattle through the gravel caused quite a bit of damage to Max's floor which really impacted performance in the later stages of qualifying.
Coming here to one of the temples of motorsport and locking out the front-row is a great reward for everyone at Brackley and Brixworth.
It may seem strange to comment positively on a session in which we finished in 14th and 16th, but today we did a step forward.
We didn't execute qualifying well enough and that meant we were unable to put everything together.
George Russell claims pole for the British countrymen, with fellow Britons, Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris, claiming second and third as Sergio Perez suffers another huge set back.
We've had some issues with medium-speed corners, so we're expecting to have to manage that, it's going to be a challenge for us, but on the other hand in low-speed corners, we've generally been very good at.
For the past two editions of this race, the two-stop strategy proved quickest, running the Medium and Hard tyres and last year, no driver gambled on the Softs.
Although we didn't score points there, we left Spain with a newfound confidence, eager to keep working hard to make our way back into the top ten.
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