Lando Norris: “A tough first day. It was difficult with the traffic and difficult to do laps with the red flags and stops. It started with a good feeling with the car and we weren’t that bad, but we did There is still something left to do to be able to drive consistently good laps in qualifying, which we will certainly manage. A decent day, but work over night. “
Daniel Ricciardo: “This route is cool, it’s a lot of fun! I definitely liked that. I felt relatively comfortable this morning, but not in the right direction this afternoon. But that’s what free practice is for. It made the FP2 a little tougher, but we’ll go back and learn from it. I think we’ll still be in good shape tomorrow, but today we were just a little bit down in FP2. There are some fast cars out there so we have a lot of work to do but it’s a fun track and I really enjoy it. “
Andrea Stella, Executive Director, Racing: “It is very nice to be here in Zandvoort for the first time with modern F1 cars. We have discovered a very interesting track with a few special features – the lean angle is like nothing we are currently experiencing anywhere else . ” Calendar and presents interesting challenges for the drivers with different lines. We assume that tomorrow’s qualifying will be decisive because overtaking on Sunday will be difficult.
“Today’s sessions were interrupted by red flags, which meant we collected less data than we ideally would have liked to prepare for tomorrow. However, we have enough track knowledge to make sure we have a very good time busy evening to study what “We have learned and prepared everything we need for a competitive performance in qualifying and for the race, which can be eventful on this” old school “track.”
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