Kiwi F1 driver Liam Lawson is remaining positive after the first two practice sessions for the Mexico City Grand Prix. The Visa Cash App RB Formula One Team driver finished ninth and tenth in the FP1 and FP2 Friday sessions. His teammate, Yuki Tsudo was immediately on the pace setting third fastest times in both sessions.
“It’s been a very positive day for the team,” said Lawson. “We’ll find out more tomorrow, but it’s nice to see the stint we made last week is transitioning into this weekend.
“From our side we have a little bit more to find, but luckily, we have plenty of track time this weekend with the other session tomorrow morning to try and make the most of that. Hopefully by Quali we’ll have a car that’s in a good window to get some points.”
“A very smooth and straightforward Friday for us, which is how we like them,” commented Alan Permane (Racing Director). “It was obviously a different schedule as we were doing a Pirelli tyre test in FP2 along with all the other teams.
“In FP1, we learned what we could about the balance of one of the race tyres and did a slightly longer than usual high fuel run and then in FP2, we followed the Pirelli programme. Both drivers are pretty happy with their cars.”
It is difficult to know what fuel loads each driver runs on and how this influences their lap times in practice. Permane adds that Tsunoda has a floor modification on his car for the Mexico round.
“Yuki has a small update to his floor here, which is a modification to the new specification of floor that we brought to Austin. Liam will get this version in Brazil. All is looking good and the cars are working well, so overnight we will start work on our race strategy and we look forward to seeing how the cars will perform in FP3.”
Qualifying is set to go at 10am NZ time Sunday 27 October 2024.
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