Finishing today's second session seventh, almost a second off the pace, Sergio Perez fears Red Bull is no match for Ferrari at Silverstone.
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The weather will be a determining factor, with the performance gaps between the compounds - and therefore the strategy - being quite dependent on track temperature.
Second quickest, just 0.163s off the pace, Lewis Hamilton gets his Silverstone weekend off to a strong start, despite the bouncing.
Overall, we're happy that the car seems to be performing better here than we saw in the last two races.
It is the usual stuff - a bit of understeer here, a bit of oversteer there, but we will try and sort it out ready for tomorrow.
It's clear that the midfield is very tight once again; a couple of tenths more or less can mean a shift of a lot of places. We'll need to make a good improvement tonight.
Qualifying tomorrow could get interesting due to the weather, so those few laps in wet conditions in FP1 were useful. Let's see what tomorrow brings.
The tyres wear quickly here with all the high-speed corners, so it's always going to be quite tricky to manage the tyres.
We still need to understand how to modify the setup to take advantage of the new package and this will be our main job overnight.
We are now carefully analysing the upgrade components and data to confirm our specification for tomorrow.
We expect the fast teams to have plenty to come tomorrow so we need to work hard to iron out a few of the balance and bouncing issues.
Performance was far from where we were expecting and where it should be. We have a lot of work ahead of us tonight to confirm the reasons for this.
Early days, but Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris give hope to home fans as they claim second and third in today's second practice session.