But yeah, we have some confidence, some other teams are quite quick, and it will be a challenge for sure. Wache: The confidence is lower than compared to starting first.
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Wherever your drivers start on the grid, do you remain confident that you can win this race tomorrow? It's a little bit more difficult than Spa, but this is the rationale behind. And based on our pace and predictions, we said maybe could be good to have a backup option for Max, that we take another penalty for Max, it's only five places. This one, we didn't want to take both cars in Spa Zandvoort was difficult, then we planned to do it Monza. And the first penalty you take is 10 places on the ICE. Pierre WACHE: Yeah, I think Sergio's penalty was planned, because we have to take a penalty before the end of the season. Can you explain the reasoning behind the changes that you're making? Can we start by talking about grid penalties? Both your guys are going to be taking some this weekend. So yeah, real good racer, is one of those drivers who, over the years, has often scored maybe more points sometimes in the car deserves – and the real class drivers always do that. He's a very tenacious racer: you saw last weekend in Zandvoort, at one point, the way the timing of the Virtual Safety Car and Safety Cars had gone, he found himself in the middle of a tight midfield bunch on older Soft tyres than others – but he still comes out looking pretty good. McCullough: I expect him to be there, week-in, week-out, getting the most out of the car in qualifying, racing really well. We see the job he's doing at Alpine week-in, week-out, really looking forward to getting him into our team and see what we can learn with him and how he can help continue to drive us forwards. McCullough: So, he hasn't started with this yet, but obviously, watching him from the outside this year and last year, he's particularly competitive and really wanting to do well. What are you expecting from him? And has he started work already? Is he coming down to the motorhome, talking to you guys? Lots of excitement surrounding Fernando Alonso joining the team next year. Q: Now Tom, let's throw it further forward. We're hoping to be a little bit more competitive, but often small margins between several teams, it's who gets it right on the day, really. But overnight, the engineers have been working hard, both at the factory and here. In Zandvoort, we were quite competitive yesterday, we struggled here, so we weren't as fast as we wanted it to be.
Some tracks suit others, you know, better or worse than us. McCullough: We're in a very tight midfield bunch at the moment, track to track. Q: So, making progress, would you agree that you are now the sixth fastest car? But I think it's something we're making headway into. So, to give the drivers a balance that they're happy to attack the car with, both in qualifying, but then also in a long run, has been a bit of a challenge. So, fundamentally, the car balance, the grip, that's what's key, what drivers want, those two. We managed to do that in a couple of events recently, which makes it much easier in the race when you're not having to come through from the back.
So that has been a recent focus of ours, trying to make sure that we can start a bit further up the grid. But if you start too far back in qualifying, it's hard as well. I think as a team, we've always focused very much on the race performance. McCullough: Yeah, some teams obviously qualify stronger, some race stronger. Can you explain the trend of it being faster in race trim than it is over one lap in qualifying? Q: Let's talk about the performance of the car. We had different programmes between the two cars, he was using a different rear wing level, getting us some valuable data that we need, from an aero instrumentation side of things.
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But he came to the factory, did the simulator work, did all the prep, works well with the engineers. He's obviously done a couple already this year.
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It's his first free practice one with us. Tom McCULLOUGH: Yeah, so he did a very good job. First of all, on the job that Nyck de Vries did yesterday in FP1. Q: Tom, we will start with you a quick word. Part One: Tom McCULLOUGH (Aston Martin), Pierre WACHE (Red Bull Racing), Andrew SHOVLIN (Mercedes)
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