After a first trouble-free day in his single-seater, Stoffel Vandoorne was quite confident by the end of the afternoon. Less than two seconds off Lewis Hamilton’s best time in FP2, the Belgian is in a position to aim for at least Q2 tomorrow during qualifying.<\/p>\n
But if the objective is real, Vandoorne, although confident, remains very cautious about the outcome of his qualifications and his ability to move to Q2: \u00ab The gaps are very tight. It’s still too early to tell. We will try to make the most of our car by building on what happened today, and I hope that tomorrow we can make another small step forward. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Like many other teams, McLaren has brought its share of aerodynamic developments for this first race on European soil. Developments that seem to have worked well today: \u00ab We’ve brought quite a few chassis developments this weekend. Tonight, we’ll have a lot of analysis to do to make them work as we want, hoping that tomorrow will be even better. \u00bb the Belgian further specifies.<\/p>\n
His teammate, Fernando Alonso, was less fortunate than him today. A bit fatalistic, Vandoorne tries, as best as he can, to reassure himself: “We’re trying to do the best we can with what we have,” he concludes.<\/p>\n
From our special correspondent in Barcelona<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stoffel Vandoorne had a trouble-free first day, setting the 13th fastest time this afternoon, less than two seconds off Lewis Hamilton’s best time. No cause for ecstasy, but a good start to the weekend that will give us confidence going into qualifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":38332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[83,947,1650],"class_list":["post-11461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-mclaren","tag-vandoorne"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n