Basically, I expected today's Sprint to play out like this. We were on the medium rear because we had a quite bad feeling with the soft. The drop of the soft rear tyre is quite big, so I preferred to race with the medium rear today and suffer a bit in the opening laps – because warming up that tyre is quite difficult – before stepping up the pace. It was quite a good Sprint for me. I think it's been a while since I finished within 8s from the front in a Sprint, especially while on a different tyre. It was great to see the difference with the other bikes: this is good information for us. We are gaining experience, and we already know our tyre choice for tomorrow: hard front, medium rear. I feel quite good. Hopefully we can make a great Race tomorrow. I think our pace is not too bad with the medium. You can't feel a big improvement in just two GPs, but if we compare our way of working to the first test in Malaysia, we are improving. But there is still a lot of work to do to be back where we want to be.
Basically, I expected today's Sprint to play out like this. We were on the medium rear because we had a quite bad feeling with the soft. The drop of the soft rear tyre is quite big, so I preferred to race with the medium rear today and suffer a bit in the opening laps – because warming up that tyre is quite difficult – before stepping up the pace. It was quite a good Sprint for me. I think it's been a while since I finished within 8s from the front in a Sprint, especially while on a different tyre. It was great to see the difference with the other bikes: this is good information for us. We are gaining experience, and we already know our tyre choice for tomorrow: hard front, medium rear. I feel quite good. Hopefully we can make a great Race tomorrow. I think our pace is not too bad with the medium. You can't feel a big improvement in just two GPs, but if we compare our way of working to the first test in Malaysia, we are improving. But there is still a lot of work to do to be back where we want to be.