George Russell labelled Mercedes' practice form in Singapore as its best of the Formula 1 season but suspects Ferrari has more in hand after not using its top engine modes.
And he said that, while things looked very close between a number of teams and more was needed for qualifying, it had been a hugely encouraging run for"It's definitely probably our best Friday of the year so far," explained Russell."But it is definitely really close between probably five teams at the moment, which is pretty exciting.
"So we will have to work hard overnight, and try and gain those last milliseconds ahead of tomorrow."at the front on the high-downforce Singapore track, Russell suspected that the squad could not only maintain that form into Saturday but could actually go quicker based on GPS analysis of what engine modes it was running.
"Ferrari are looking favourites at the moment and I don't think they were maximum [with their] power unit as well," added Russell."They've probably got a couple more tenths in the pocket."The tyres are going to be key: when we have the C5, the softest compound, just getting it in the sweet spot you can find tenths of a second so easily.
"So we just need to find that sweet spot, try to nail every single lap and find ourselves in a good position.", who concurred it had been the most encouraging Friday of the year after he ended FP2 in fifth spot."FP1 was solid," he said."We were still a little bit off where we wanted to be, but it wasn't too bad. FP2 was for sure the best FP2 session I've had this year.
"It was nice to finish a Friday feeling so positive. I think we've got a good platform to build off for the rest of the weekend. It's the best I've felt from a Friday this year, so I hope we can do some good work overnight, as we always tend to do, and continue to improve."
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