Ocon<\/a> 15th as the Frenchman began the process of playing catch up after sitting out FP1.<\/p>\nEsteban Ocon \u2013 FP2: 1:08.830, P15<\/p>\n
\u201cI jumped in the car after Ry\u014d was in for FP1, so there was a lot to take on board, but there seems to be a lot less degradation than in Barcelona, which is quite positive, even with the heat. We’ve got a clear direction of where we want to go tomorrow and what we need to improve, so we’ll try to do that. It’s too early to see where we’ll stand, but we’ll try and do the best we can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oliver Bearman – FP1: 1:09.071, P10; FP2: 1:08.532, P13<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a positive day overall. I\u2019ve been happy with the progress, honestly, and the car has also been good. We had a few things to focus on after Barcelona, and I think the car is in a good window right now. The gaps are tight like normal, so we need to make a step for tomorrow, but as far as Fridays go, I\u2019m pretty happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryo Hirakawa – FP1: 1:10.493, P19<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my first time in the VF-26 today, so a big thank you to TGR Haas F1 Team and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing for the opportunity. It was a hectic session and we were busy working through quite a few tests, but everything went well. I couldn’t really do a proper lap though because we were limited by time, but there was some good feedback between me and the team, which they can take into the rest of the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ayao Komatsu, Team Principal<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had Ry\u014d in the car for FP1, and we had a very different program, focusing on test items, considering what\u2019s been happening the last few races. That was really important, so in terms of lap times, I wouldn\u2019t read anything into that because, honestly, our program was very different and we weren\u2019t focused on one-lap performance. On Ollie\u2019s side, I\u2019d say that was one of the best starts to a weekend we\u2019ve had in quite a few races, which is really good. We\u2019ve been saying we need to start the weekend on the front foot, getting our set-up in the ballpark, and build up from there, and I feel overall today we\u2019ve done that. In FP2, it was far from perfect, and we need to find performance, but today I felt our operations were good, our cars started from a good place, and we were chipping away at it. We still have performance to find on both low and high-fuel, but I think it was a good Friday and a good reaction from the last few races.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haas Hirakawa had a tricky start to his FP1, after he overshot his pit box early in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-763678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}