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Well, it's an experience.

I have never driven the car in the wet.

It was my first time ever this morning.

So discovering something new.

I think the team hasn't had much wet running in development.

So we are trying to learn as much as we can.

Is it finally starting to come together in that sense?

What's your feeling for the remainder of this race at Circuit of the Americas?

Yes, we are making progress.

I think it was the second time after Le Mans that we had two cars in triple pole.

But yeah, it's been a challenging day so far.

We've seen the car at 17 at a really good pace at the start with Andre.

That little spin lost a bit of time at the stop.

So yeah, in terms of execution at the moment, we are losing a little bit of ground on our car on 19.

How hard is it to try and stay cool? I see you're still in shorts.

But how is the car performing in the transition from day to night?

Yeah, it seems all right.

Obviously, nothing replaces Le Mans, you know, as much as you do.

We try to prepare ourselves.

We had some endurance testing last year.

We had one closer to this race.

But, you know, Le Mans is so special.

And what can you tell us about the condition of the track itself?

Is the reason for this quick rotation of drivers that we're seeing to do with this vibration problem?

Yeah, I started feeling vibrations here in the second stint.

On the right side of the car, I expected it to be front-right.

I didn't have any lock-up or anything, but yeah, it felt like it was on the tyres.

It's very early into the race, so obviously it compromised a little bit the strategy, but it's our first Le Mans, so we just try to be safe at this point.

We change the tyres, check if vibration is still there.

Hopefully not.

Is that going to have a huge effect on the tyre allocation that you've lost a set effectively?