Max Verstappen: "Of course, it was a long wait to get in the car this Friday. Arvid did well today and thanks to him for looking after my car.

"On the Soft tyre we managed to get in a good lap, but the rest wasn't great. The Medium laps weren't good and the big problem is the long runs where we seem to struggle a lot, which is a concern for the race. The balance isn't off but there is no grip, which is the main concern. As soon as you go on to a sustainable run the car goes hot and we end up nowhere, which is tough. You can be fast on one lap but will not have pace in the race and of course I would prefer to be fast in the race. It's going to be tough so we need to take a look and analyse."

Yuki Tsunoda: "I can be fairly happy with this Friday, it's been a while since I've had an FP1 and FP2 feel so consistent throughout, so I'm pretty happy overall. There is, of course, stuff we can improve on in both the long and short runs but we're in a good place for Saturday and feel in a better position than we have been on Fridays before. Tomorrow there are things we'll look to optimise in order to find greater performance, but generally the balance was okay. We did, however, struggle with a few things but you can expect that around here. If we can find a compromise between those then we can definitely increase the strengths of the car for Qualifying and Sunday."

Arvid Lindblad: "I think today was pretty good. It wasn't easy and at the start it was quite dusty and a bit icy on the Hard tyres. I tried to limit the mistakes and I'm happy that the car was back in one piece! I think from my side it was good and I was just trying to give good feedback to the Team. We were trying a few things with the set up and the run plan wasn't too different to Yuki's. We went on the Soft tyres at the same time and I just did an extra run on them as it was a bit messy with the yellow flags. Today I was a bit more nervous, especially with the weight of the situation and Max fighting for the Championship, so it was important not to make any mistakes. However, as soon as the visor went down and I got going, it was all good. The car is fast but I always feel like I could have done better. Overall, I was happy with the session. I knew it was important to help the Team gather data so I made sure I was giving good feedback to point them in the right direction and I felt like I did a good job of that. It was a pleasure to drive Max's car and hopefully he will have a good weekend."

Gianpiero Lambiase: "Arvid did a very solid job in the car in FP1, we had some new components on the car and he did a very good job of collecting the data we needed and keeping the car in one piece. Onto the afternoon, a track temperature of just under 50 degrees is making life very difficult for us, both on the PU and brake cooling and the tyres as well. The challenge we are working on at the moment, is really trying to find that combination of tyre inner and surface temperature. Certainly in FP2 we saw that the long runs are becoming more and more of a focus for us. I think over one lap both cars are able to put in quite a competitive lap time, as you saw in FP2, particularly with Max. So, it's the high fuel run pace where we are really having to focus all of our attention this evening. We feel we are not really in a happy place with our tyre degradation and thermal control of the tyre. We need to work to get that where we need and want it to be."