Today's post-qualifying press conference with Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz and George Russell.
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Lando's first pole position, our first pole position since 2012 and Daniel qualifying P5 make this an excellent Saturday for our team.
As usual, our aim is to get the best possible result, trying to make the most of any opportunity that comes our way.
At the end we have come out of a difficult Qualifying with both cars in Q3 inside the top ten, which is a positive.
Tomorrow will be tough in the dry as we have many quicker cars starting behind. However, the car was working quite well at high fuel on Friday and we have a good opportunity to fight with the McLaren and Ferrari.
Lance did a superb job to qualify eighth but, had he not lost a significant amount of time behind Checo in sector three on his fastest Q3 lap, he would have qualified fourth.
Even without Lewis' kiss on the wall we wouldn't have been able to do two laps on the Soft and it was definitely a lap two tyre today.
All drivers will have a free choice of tyres at the start, which means that they should be able to run the optimal one-stop strategy.
Admitting his costly pitlane mistake, Lewis Hamilton apologises to his team vowing that he will rectify it on Sunday.
We can't change today's result, so we need to simply focus our attention on the race and move forward as much as we can.
Obviously we knew Max was going to be starting from the back of the grid and with today's tricky qualifying conditions, the reward wasn't worth the risk.
Lando Norris takes pole in Sochi, ahead of Carlos Sainz and George Russell, as Lewis Hamilton crashes in pitlane and Mercedes makes another strategic error.