Max Verstappen: "It wasn't too bad today. Building up to it, the car felt quite good which was positive for us.

"We found a stable balance and this needs to be quite particular for the layout of this track. Everything needs to come together to produce a good lap and we are still working to find more on the one lap and to gain more confidence. We are fine tuning little bits and hopefully tomorrow the car will be better. The long runs felt okay, it is always going to be slippery around here and tough on the tyres with the softer compounds, but it is not too bad. Ferrari are always pretty fast around here and I do expect a few things to be close. It will all come down to driving a perfect lap in Qualifying or getting your tyres in a good window. With such a long straight you can get lucky with a tow as well."

Yuki Tsunoda: "Driving here in Baku is always a little bit different, so it's important to get as much information from each session. Overall, it was a good day. In the short run there is some room to improve but it's good that we're experiencing it on Friday so we can perform well tomorrow. In FP2, we mainly focussed on the long runs and that felt a lot better and I haven't had that feeling a lot this year. The car is making sense so far which is a real positive and lap by lap we're getting there. We're going to stay positive, keep going in the right direction and see what we can do tomorrow."

Gianpiero Lambiase: "Baku presents another unique challenge and it is almost a lap of two halves, where we have a two kilometre long straight and a sequence of multiple low speed corners. It is challenging to pick our downforce level, to not only be optimum in lap time in Qualifying but to ensure we are raceable across multiple factors on Sunday. That's one challenge and the other is that this is a street track, so it is very bumpy, which causes a few gremlins under braking. So, there have been some tweaks mechanically across both cars, both in session and across sessions, to try and optimise our platform. Looking ahead to Quali and the race, there is an unusual tyre selection across the grid, across both sessions and most people are opting to focus on the Soft tyre. We, therefore, have some analyse to do this evening to really look into the programme for Qualifying, while making sure we are on top of our long run game on Sunday, which could be impacted by lower than usual track temperatures here."

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