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With heavy rain hitting Sochi as expected, race director, Michael Masi has laid out the proposed plan for remainder of the weekend.

With heavy rain hitting Sochi as expected, race director, leading to the cancelation of FP3, Michael Masi has laid out the proposed plan for remainder of the weekend.

After just one year, F3 will once again race alongside F2 as part of the support bill at a number of Grands Prix.

Today's press conference with Toyoharu Tanabe, Laurent Mekies and Marcin Budkowski

Today's press conference with Andreas Seidl, Toto Wolff and Christian Horner

We focused our efforts on understanding the tyres and set-up, preparing the car for both single-lap performance and for the race, as usual.

The car is working well here and although there is definitely some scope for improvement, we are happy with our start to the weekend.

A positive Friday for us in general, mainly coming from a decent balance right from the beginning and the car performing a bit better on this kind of track.

We've often struggled on the Soft tyre this year but today it seemed to work well.

A pretty good day today with no big issues and both drivers and the team doing a good job over the two sessions.

World champion, Lewis Hamilton says that Mercedes must "capitalise" on Max Verstappen's move to the back of the grid following engine change.

It was a productive day of running: we covered a good number of laps and found a decent balance with the car.

Tomorrow's expected weather influenced free practice today, with the drivers concentrating more on collecting plenty of data over all three compounds as well as setting a lap time just in case FP2 has an influence on the grid positions for the race.

We had to try and do as much work as possible today knowing that tomorrow's weather looks very unsettled.

We thought it would be best to take the engine penalty here, we took everything into account before making the decision and we of course considered the weather for tomorrow.