Red Bull: It was a tough day

Friday, 04 September 2015 at 20:02

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Red Bull drivers report from the first practice day of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Daniel Ricciardo

First Practice Session: Position: 7, Best Time: 1:26.922, Laps: 27
Second Practice Session: Position: 13, Best Time: 1:26.222, Laps: 27

“We know we’ll lose quite a bit of time on the straight here in Monza, so it’s the best place to take our penalties. We focused on the race set-up, since we will be starting from close to the back of the grid. If it’s looking to be a dry race, we’ll look at saving tyres during qualifying, and other strategy options. We have a standard setting for the brakes and we've seen the normal tyre wear which is expected at this track. We’ll do what we can for this race.”

Daniil Kvyat

First Practice Session: Position: 12, Best Time: 1:27.275, Laps: 29
Second Practice Session: Position: 20, Best Time: 1:28.723, Laps: 28

“It was a tough day for us today. We lost quite a bit of time in the second practice session and we couldn’t work through our full programme. Qualifying isn’t our main focus, as we have the penalties to deal with and we made the decision to concentrate on the long runs. The pace is what we expected for Monza.”