The first lap was looking good in qualifying, then I spun on the last corner for some unexpected reason. We need to look if I went a bit too hard on throttle on the exit. The second lap was actually really good. I was aiming for P10, but Giovinazzi crashed at the last corner and I couldn’t complete my lap. It’s just hard luck. I wasn’t so happy with the car this morning in FP3. We struggled a little bit, but we made some gains with changes over lunch. As I said, the car was going to be P10, so we weren’t far off chasing Q3. It was looking all good, but then I couldn’t do the lap. Tomorrow’s going to be a long race. We know the tire degradation will be a huge thing here in the rain, and it should rain. It’s a white piece of paper to start.

I’m fairly happy. We were about half-a-tenth from Q3 and that’s the best qualifying I’ve had for a while. I can’t be unhappy with that. It’s obviously a little bit annoying not to get through when the margin is so small, but the lap wasn’t bad, so it is what it is. I think the car is competitive, especially in race conditions. It’s a good car. If it’s raining, we have no idea how it’s going to be. We’ll see how it goes.

It was very eventful for us. There were good things and bad. It was better than last year, where it was a bit of a low. With Romain, you’re never unlucky – you make your own luck – and on his first lap he maybe tried too hard. On the second lap, he got into the double yellow and had to slow down, because otherwise he would’ve moved on without a problem to Q2. Everything was possible again to go into Q3. Kevin did a good job. He progressed from Melbourne. He was solid. He qualified 12 th . He’s making steps, which is very good. He wasn’t far off to go into Q3. He was only seven hundredths off. So, there are a lot of positives and maybe we don’t see them on the result sheet. It’ll be an interesting race.