Everyone is committed to getting the car into a better place and we look forward to coming back stronger in Australia.
It’s clear that we’ve got a lot of work to do but these tough days make you better.
Today was not a good day for us. It is clear that we are struggling with the car in the high-speed corners. We are competitive elsewhere but in three corners here, we were losing about half-a-second. It was therefore incredibly difficult for the drivers to attack with.
It shows just how high the level is in Formula 2.
There is so much learning we can take from these first two race weekends. We need to get our heads down to analyse, understand and improve. It’s clear that we’ve got a lot of work to do but these tough days make you better.
Our target is to try to be ahead of them tomorrow, but we know overtaking isn’t easy here. Last week, we thought we had a car that was quicker in race trim, but we were unable to show that. Hopefully we will have a better evening here in Jeddah. We will do our best.
That was a very annoying qualifying session! We’ve got a quick car, but it is on a knife’s edge. The drivers are struggling to squeeze out the lap consistently. George was on his way to a strong lap and could have been fighting for spots on the second row.
Unfortunately he lost the rear of the car. Lewis meanwhile never had the feedback from the car that he wanted, and that meant he couldn’t go faster.
I think the race pace will be very close between ourselves, the Ferraris, and the McLarens.
💬 "We need to keep on building on our learnings and everyone will be hard at work overnight to eke out more performance."
George, Lewis and Shov sum up our Thursday in Jeddah 👀👇
First day on track in Jeddah ends with George in P2 and Lewis in P8. Work to do overnight to give the drivers a more consistent car.
Back for more tomorrow 💪