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Insisting that Mercedes recent straight-line speed is "not normal", Red Bull boss, Christian Horner admits that he will not hesitate in protesting the car.

Today's press conference with Frederic Vasseur and Franz Tost.

Today's press conference with Christian Horner and Toto Wolff.

Overall, we're relatively happy after our first day.

There will still be some uncertainty going into Qualifying and the race and so we are looking forward to adapting to the situation as it unfolds and making the very most of the circumstances.

With it being so difficult to overtake, securing a good position on the grid will play a major part in our final result.

What will be key is balancing the first and last sectors, due to tyre overheating that is caused by the high temperatures here.

We've finished today reasonably happy but, as always, there's work to do to refine the set-up and find more performance ahead of qualifying tomorrow.

Overall a good start but the track is evolving rapidly, and grip is coming up with every session, so we need to make sure that we keep everything in the right place.

Let's see what happens this weekend, there's still a lot of things to look at as everything is still so new.

Coming to a new track, we didn't expect some of the challenges here.

As usual with a new track, there will be plenty of data analysis tonight as the teams begin to work out the weekend's qualifying and race strategy.

The conditions were not bad, actually better than we expected. We had worse situations in the past, in places like Bahrain, where the wind and the dust made it really hard on Friday.

So far we're looking competitive, particularly over the short runs, which were very good for both drivers. The longer runs were a bit more of a challenge for the tyres.

The stewards full statement following their decision to deny Mercedes the right of review.