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“It was a very challenging day, I think, for everyone out there,” he said. “The layout is the same, but the track feels completely different to any other year with this peaky new surface.
“It makes the car a bit on the edge in all the medium-speed corners, and the braking is very tricky into Turn 1. Even if the lap times are the same as other years, the kerbs and the tarmac have changed a lot the situation.”
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Asked for his expectations as the weekend develops, he said: “I think today in particular is very difficult to read. I don’t have a clear picture of who is fastest, who is quick in the long-run, short-run. It definitely seems like McLaren and Mercedes seem to be in a good spot.
“Ourselves, we have flashes of being very quick sometimes, and others a bit slower. We were quick on the medium tyres but then on the soft we were nothing special, and then on the mediums in the long-run we seemed to be struggling a bit with the graining.
“I don’t know. It’s going to be interesting to see who manages to take the right conclusion out of today, because there’s a lot of information gathered. As I said, it’s a very new circuit, and [we’ll see] who puts it together for tomorrow and Sunday.”
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