Sven Smeets, Sporting Director: The team did a great job overnight to find more performance for today because after FP3 this morning both drivers were happier with the balance of the car than yesterday. For Qualifying the cloud cover disappeared and track temperature creeped up but with clean and well executed runs both drivers proceeded into Q2. We knew it was going to be harder to get into Q3 but again both drivers had great last laps and made it through. In Q3 we had to settle for P9 and P10 after an incident prohibited Alex to complete his final push lap and Franco made some small mistakes which prevented him from taking P8 from [Fernando] Alonso. Nevertheless, the team and the drivers...
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