Edd Straw

He's never been a huge simulator fiend though has he?

data analysis in other areas so it's not like he's just not doing anything and turning up it's all about tuning it for what works best for him and we know how good he is when

when things are as he wants them in terms of all the success he's had.

So quite rightly so.

Going to be an interesting day tomorrow.

Of course, it's another sprint weekend, isn't it?

So we're going to go basically straight into sprint quali after the free practice session, some new parts to evaluate from Mercedes, teams like that.

And then you're going to go in on a track that's not going to be that well gripped up because it takes a while to get the track rubbed in here, doesn't it?

So it's going to be a pretty interesting day, I'd have thought.

Yeah, and it's going to be interesting to see how things work on Saturday on the sprint race as well, because we're going to see a lot of passing because, as you've alluded to, there just isn't the energy to harvest, particularly under braking.

around here and with the way you've got so many long straights if you pass somebody you're just going to get passed back shortly after so interesting to see how that works out it's going to be a bit more frenetic I suspect than what we saw in Miami and we're just pulling up at our shuttle stop so we shall stop talking so thanks very much to listening apologies to our driver for having to listen to us banging on but you were very

Thank you for making me a part of being a VIP club member.

Thank you very much and apologies.

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