Jon Noble

They've tried to address some of the kind of disconnected feel that both drivers have had.

There's been changes to the steering in particular.

I asked Max about this in the pen tonight.

He said, has this steering change helped give you the confidence?

He said, yeah, it's nice to have a steering wheel that works, finally.

And I think...

We see a lot with these cars, and this is what Lando talked about with the McLaren, that when the drivers have confidence, when they know what the car's going to do, suddenly a corner that's a lift becomes flat.

Suddenly you know you can brake a bit later, you can get on the throttle a bit earlier.

I think this is the element with Max, that it's come alive, he feels better in the car, the upgrades have made a step.

Power unit still has some improvements to make.

I think when it's working in the right window and everything's deployed and harvested perfectly and all the turbo levels and boost levels and all those elements are in the window, he can do what he did in qualifying and get it on the front row and challenge right at the front.

But...

I think it can fall out the window quite easily.

But it's a step.

It's a step.

And I think it was important for him and for Red Bull to make this step because it had been pretty tough the first three races.

I was thinking this is a classic sim racing, Sean.

strong initial performances for Williams things hadn't clicked tremendous amount of pressure last year when expectations were up there start to season hadn't really gone his way either Pierre Gasly had hit the ground running with this car Franco wasn't as confident wasn't as comfortable

They made a change of chassis going into this weekend, which we'll never know if it's made the difference or not.

But I think so often in Formula 1, a team will say, we'll bring a new chassis along.