Lando Norris: “A irritating Dash Qualifying this afternoon.
“My lap might have been cleaner, so I am dissatisfied. We’ll look into it tonight and discover the areas to work on forward of tomorrow’s classes. We’re within the combine although and inside touching distance of the leaders with solely a few vehicles to overhaul, in order that’s my plan for the Dash with the intention of scoring sturdy factors in our push for the Championship.”
Oscar Piastri: “It is a disgrace to be out of Dash Qualifying so early. Many of the lap was good, however I simply made a couple of errors within the final sector. Within the second to final nook, I attempted to hold a bit an excessive amount of pace and simply exceeded the bounds of the monitor. It is a disgrace however one of many good issues about Dash weekends is that now we have one other likelihood to point out our true tempo tomorrow. It will be robust to get again up into the factors from the place we’re, however we’ll do what we are able to and attempt to safe some priceless factors for the crew.”
Andrea Stella, Crew Principal: “The primary weekend of this triple-header begins once more with a really tight subject, and 4 completely different groups within the first 4 positions after the Dash Qualifying session. We did not have the smoothest day. Oscar had a lap deleted and was eradicated in SQ1 as a consequence. On Lando’s facet of the storage, we have been in a position to progress to SQ3 comfortably. He seemed like he was on the right track to set a really aggressive lap, however a few points within the remaining sector pushed him all the way down to P4. It is nonetheless a superb place from which to attain factors, and we have additionally gathered good data that may enable us to extract slightly bit extra from the automobile, whereas studying in regards to the updates now we have introduced right here to Austin.”
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