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Today's press conference with James Vowles, Andrea Stella and Mario Isola.

It was a mixed day across our cars.

As a starting point, this is encouraging, and we hope that we can earn some good points tomorrow.

The surface is very smooth and its level of abrasiveness is significantly lower than what we measured last year. But there are many bumps which make life complicated.

Kevin Magnussen will not compete in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix and Oliver Bearman will race for the team for the remainder of the weekend.

We must apologise to Zhou, as we made the wrong call in SQ1, and he was unable to start his second attempt.

We wanted to be in the mix in this Sprint Qualifying and we managed to do it.

We have a bit more work to do.

As we expected, it's very tight in the midfield.

The aim now is to be in the battle for points in the Sprint tomorrow.

It has been a challenging day for us.

Everybody is suffering with the track conditions. It's very bumpy compared to previous years and that's having a big impact on things.

Oscar Piastri heads an all-McLaren front row in the Sao Paulo Sprint as Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez fail to make it to SQ3.

Times from today's Shootout for the Lenovo Grande Premio de Sao Paulo Sprint.

Lando Norris sets the opening practice in Brazil as Max Verstappen gets a grid penalty and super-sub Oliver Bearman impresses.