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Admitting his frustration at the way in which Daniel Ricciardo's final race was handled, RB boss, Lauren Mekies says the Australian is "bigger than F1".

Despite Zak Brown's claims to the contrary, the FIA's head of single seaters, Nikolas Tombazis insists that the ride height device on the RB20 is a "non-story".

We didn't have the smoothest day.

Today's team representatives press conference with Oliver Oakes, Zak Brown and Laurent Mekies.

Today's pole was also two seconds quicker than last year's (1'34"723) and a little over seven tenths faster than the predicted time of 1'33"600

We have one car in a good position to fight for points and with the other one we will focus on fine tuning the setup for Qualifying and the race on Sunday.

We still have some work to do for the rest of the weekend, the main target is to be strong in the race and our long run pace looked very promising this morning.

We can take many positives but ultimately, we end the day slightly frustrated.

As usual, it's very tight and we saw Mercedes and Verstappen much better on the Soft than the Medium, while it was the opposite for us, which bodes well for our race pace on Saturday and Sunday.

We can't avoid being disappointed with the performance in today's qualifying session, where Valtteri and Zhou struggled to find the right balance, particularly in the first sector.

That was an amazing result. If you're disappointed with P8, that's a good place.

There are usually opportunities in Sprint races, so we will do our best to be in a position to capitalise on those.

Pace-wise we're in a similar place to where we have been all season.

Max Verstappen claims pole for the Austin Sprint, ahead of George Russell and Charles Leclerc as Sergio Perez and Scar Piastri fail to make it to SQ3.

Carlos Sainz heads teammate Charles Leclerc is sole practice session for United States Grand Prix, as tricky conditions leave few unscathed.