Baku City Circuit, Friday, 19 September

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, and Team Principal Andrea Stella, after Free Practice for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

FP1	1m42.704s	19 laps	1st
FP2	1m42.199s (+0.906s)	7 laps	10th

"A bit frustrating to have made that small but costly mistake, but I’d rather push and find the limits, than not get anywhere near. The day was going well until then and the car felt good, so we’re still in a reasonable place. The competition is looking close, but we’ll do what we can heading into Saturday.”

FP1	1m43.014s (+0.310s)	14 laps	2nd
FP2	1m42.295s (+1.002s)	23 laps	12th

“A mixed day. The pace is there but it hasn’t been the easiest to extract it. We had an issue in FP1, but the team did a great job to get us back out on track. We tried a few things in FP2 which seemed to keep us progressing. We’ll see what we can change this evening to keep us on that track. Still a lot of positives from the day so looking forward to seeing what we can do tomorrow.”

"A disruptive Friday in Baku with multiple Red and Yellow Flags interrupting both sessions. We know this is a tight circuit with little room for mistakes and today was tougher than we wanted with stop-start running making it difficult to get a clean rhythm.

“The team worked hard to investigate an issue with Oscar’s PU in Free Practice 1 which was quickly rectified allowing Oscar to get back on track, thankfully having missed little running due to the Red Flag. On Lando’s side he had some contact with the wall when pushing to the limit in Free Practice 2, unfortunately cutting his session short. Oscar also brushed the wall on his new tyre run, so we didn’t have a chance to demonstrate our true pace this afternoon.

“Despite these interruptions, we have been able to collect some important data that can be taken away tonight. We will consolidate our learnings as a team and refine what we can in order to make steps forward in tomorrow's final practice session. Today’s sessions confirm we can expect another tight and competitive challenge for Pole in Qualifying tomorrow.”