Our focus now shifts to tomorrow's race, where we need to ensure the tyre learning from today is well applied in order to get both cars moving further up the field again.
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All in all, we scored a point which is a positive and Mick is up two positions for tomorrow.
Max Verstappen wins the first Sprint of the year as Charles Leclerc falls victim to unexpected deg, as Red Bull leapfrogs Mercedes in team standings.
Today's team principals press conference with Franz Tost, Mario Isola, Mattia Binotto, Guenther Steiner, Jost Capito and Mike Krack.
With teams needing to choose between focussing on the Sprint or the GP, Russell edges out Perez and Leclerc, as McLaren pair and Bottas are sidelined with technical issues.
Times from the final free practice session for the Rolex Gran Premio del Made in Italy e dell Emilia-Romagna.
Mercedes trackside engineering director, Andrew Shovlin admits that currently the German team is a midfield runner and not a title challenger.
As Mercedes fails to get a car into Q3 for the first time since 2012, Lewis Hamilton admits that "each weekend is a rescue".
Drivers admit that they are unhappy with the new three-day format, feeling that they are now spending too much time answering the same questions.
Our objective before the session was to have at least one car in Q2 and one in Q3, and in this regard, we accomplished it.
On the whole the wet and intermediates tyres performed well. Some drivers did comment about warm-up, but that's to be expected in these low temperatures.
A positive aspect today was that the car was also competitive on both wet weather tyre compounds.