After the primary two apply classes forward of the Components 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Yuki Tsunoda, and Daniel Ricciardo have some causes to consider they might be within the struggle over the weekend.
Nevertheless, there are additionally some areas of concern.
Tsunoda completed P15 within the first apply session on Friday, bettering barely to P11 within the day’s second session. For Ricciardo, the outcomes had been reversed. The Australian driver completed up in tenth in FP1, solely to slip again to P16 in FP2.
Each drivers noticed some silver lining on the day.
“It began fairly difficult, however we made good progress between FP1 and FP2, simply not fairly sufficient to be within the prime of the midfield,” stated Tsunoda within the group’s post-session report. “It’s tough on this type of monitor to have good steadiness in all places, however we managed to enhance session by session, we simply must work on some wonderful tuning and repair the bouncing I skilled in FP2. We now have a few concepts already on how we are able to enhance earlier than FP3 tomorrow, to show it round for a very good qualifying.”
As for Ricciardo, he checked out FP1 as the brilliant spot.
“At this time was combined. FP1 went nicely, it was good to get again on this circuit, it’s been a few years since I final drove right here. I felt like I received into the circulate of it comparatively nicely and felt good. We made some modifications for FP2 to see if we may enhance grip, because it’s very slippery right here. Nevertheless, we didn’t really feel the conclusion of this enhanced issues,” stated Ricciardo. “We all know what labored this morning and was in a very good place, so if we use our FP1 arrange and attempt to get a bit bit extra out of it, we’ll be combating in the direction of the entrance of the mid-field with a very good lap in qualifying tomorrow. Like all road circuit, should you can put the lap collectively you may go very nicely. We’ll attempt our greatest to make it work.”
Racing Director Alan Permane known as the day “first rate,” however pointed to some areas of enchancment the group can deal with for Saturday and finally, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
“An honest day for us though nonetheless loads of tempo to seek out, because the automotive steadiness was not fairly good. It meant that neither driver was totally pleased. We carried out our ground comparability with Daniel operating the most recent spec in FP1 and each automobiles operating it in FP2 and we are going to proceed analysing the information this night,” stated Permane.
“The preliminary impression is that it’s an honest step in the proper path. As traditional at this road circuit, the monitor evolves all through the day and that includes adjusting the steadiness to observe the development,” added the VCARB Racing Director. “Tonight, we are going to look fastidiously at our stage of downforce and we’d modify that for FP3 and presumably into qualifying.”
