It was a frustrating for Lewis to lose a point to Max this afternoon, but we saw that we had the pace to make it a very close race tomorrow.
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This marks our first pole at Silverstone since 2011 and breaks the Mercedes nine-year pole position streak.
We decided to start with new Softs, which was a calculated risk, but a good choice from the team. Fernando definitely made the most of the strategy.
It's not been a fantastic day for us, so we've just got to see if we can recover it tomorrow in the longer race.
Temperatures are forecasted to be even higher for the grand prix, so tyre management will be a factor, as we also saw today during sprint qualifying where there was some blistering as the teams pushed to the limit.
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