After the primary two follow periods forward of the Method 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Yuki Tsunoda, and Daniel Ricciardo have some causes to consider they might be within the combat over the weekend.
Nonetheless, there are additionally some areas of concern.
Tsunoda completed P15 within the first follow 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,” mentioned Tsunoda within the workforce’s post-session report. “It’s tough on this type of monitor to have good stability all over the place, however we managed to enhance session by session, we simply have to work on some advantageous tuning and repair the bouncing I skilled in FP2. We’ve a few concepts already on how we will enhance earlier than FP3 tomorrow, to show it round for a great qualifying.”
As for Ricciardo, he checked out FP1 as the brilliant spot.
“In the present day was blended. FP1 went properly, 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 properly and felt good. We made some adjustments for FP2 to see if we might enhance grip, because it’s very slippery right here. Nonetheless, we didn’t really feel the conclusion of this enhanced issues,” mentioned Ricciardo. “We all know what labored this morning and was in a great place, so if we use our FP1 arrange and attempt to get just a little bit extra out of it, we’ll be combating in the direction of the entrance of the mid-field with a great lap in qualifying tomorrow. Like all road circuit, should you can put the lap collectively you possibly can go very properly. We’ll strive our greatest to make it work.”
Racing Director Alan Permane referred to as the day “respectable,” however pointed to some areas of enchancment the workforce can give attention to for Saturday and in the end, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
“A good day for us though nonetheless loads of tempo to seek out, because the automotive stability was not fairly good. It meant that neither driver was totally comfortable. We carried out our flooring comparability with Daniel working the most recent spec in FP1 and each vehicles working it in FP2 and we’ll proceed analysing the info this night,” mentioned Permane.
“The preliminary impression is that it’s an honest step in the precise course. As typical at this road circuit, the monitor evolves all through the day and that entails adjusting the stability to observe the advance,” added the VCARB Racing Director. “Tonight, we’ll look rigorously at our stage of downforce and we’d alter that for FP3 and presumably into qualifying.”
