Our main aim in this final part of the season is to beat McLaren in the constructors' standings and the outcome of this session suggests we are pretty evenly matched.
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Our strategy tomorrow will be to create points-scoring opportunities for both our drivers.
We've had good pace throughout the weekend here in Doha, so it's great to be able to convert that in qualifying today with both cars in Q3 and Fernando in the top five.
The first 500m are going to be crucial and then it will come down to strategy, pit stops and reliability, all of those factors.
Lewis found it today, he wasn't particularly satisfied yesterday but he had a great car in qualifying to put it on pole and he did so in dominant style.
As Q2 showed, it wasn't easy to get through the session on the medium, so we're set for an interesting mix of strategies with many factors still relatively unknown.
The solid performance yesterday and the hard work put in by the engineers, mechanics and drivers overnight has provided another good step forward today.
We have seen quite a lot of damage to various cars over the last 48 hours and so tomorrow could be a long race of attrition and patience.
Tonight's was a disappointing result, especially on the back of some really promising performances in the last few outings.
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