Pierre Gasly: "I'm actually quite pleased with today's result in Sprint Qualifying.

The last few weekends have been tricky for us and we have not really been in the mix with our competitors. The team has worked really hard in the week between Singapore and here to find some improvements and it was important to find more performance to put ourselves back in the mix, which I feel we have done today. We always want more than what we achieved today but, looking at the work everyone has put in, we can be pleased as we have a good baseline to work from for the rest of this weekend. Tomorrow for the Sprint, we need to try and maximise the start and gain some places and see where we end up. It is a tricky track and we will just take one session at a time and try to maximise what we have every time we are on track."

Franco Colapinto: "It has not been the smoothest of days and with only one Practice session, we were not able to get on top of some of the issues we have been facing and fine tune our package. I think there is potential in the car and our position is not necessarily reflective of where we could be if we manage to put everything together. I have been struggling a lot for grip, especially when putting the power down on traction. It did not feel great on either run in SQ1 and the wind also seemed to pick up later in the day, which made it a bit more unpredictable. This track lends itself to good racing so let's see what we can do tomorrow, but also keeping one eye on Qualifying and the Grand Prix itself. We will try our best to move forward from our starting position and also use the track time to keep learning about what improvements we can bring between the sessions."

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