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For the first time, and I never thought I would be able to say this, Charles is happy with the car’s behaviour in the wet. For the first time, he felt that same feeling he used to have when driving in the rain in karting. Credit to the team, because they’ve done an incredible job working on this issue. Charles clearly sacrificed his qualifying session, knowing he had a penalty. He used it to help the team understand the car better. For him, this qualifying session was basically an FP2. He made so many changes to help the team better understand the car’s behaviour in wet conditions, so they can work on improving it ahead of 2027. Now we’ll have to see whether it works tomorrow. I’m confident, as always, and hoping for a win, even if it seems very difficult. The most realistic target is a podium. We’ll see, but bravo to Charles and the team! #F1 #BrazilGP 🇧🇷

Q: Has Fred kind of cleared the air? Is everything on a good footing between yourself and Charles? Lewis : « I mean, Fred hasn't cleared the air in the sense of like... me and Charles, we sat and spoke, we squashed it and we're moving on. I think we still have a huge amount of respect for each other. And I'm glad we had a chat. You know, now we've moved on. We've been getting along just fine as normal. So, sometimes in those scenarios it just takes having a conversation. There's been no demands from either side. It's just been both giving our points and areas that we can do better and support each other. And, yeah, so I'm hoping to have better races moving forwards. » #F1 #BrazilGP 🇧🇷

Charles to Sky IT: “It was a qualifying session that was much more positive than the result we achieved. I'm not satisfied with the result, but I think this was one of those sessions where I learned a lot, and where we learned a lot as a team. Knowing that we had a 10-place grid penalty, I decided to be much more aggressive in terms of the directions I explored during qualifying, with the front wing, with other things, and with the tools on the steering wheel. I think it was an experiment that will pay off, because I've been at Ferrari for nine years now, and to be honest, I've never had the same feeling in the wet that I used to have in the junior categories. The wet has always been my strong point, but at Ferrari I've always struggled, and that's something we still need to figure out. However, I think today was positive because we tried so many things, and at certain points during qualifying, in conditions where I usually have absolutely no feeling with this car, I actually had a very good feeling. The feeling was really good, but in Q3, as we continued experimenting, we ended up on the wrong side of things. It was a session where we had a lot of performance at certain points, and much less at others, especially on the intermediates towards the end. But honestly, it was a good session. We tried a lot of different things. We knew we were going to take the penalty anyway, so we could afford to take a few more risks and experiment much more with the car, even coming into the pits during runs. Although there are parc fermé restrictions and we can't change too many things, there are still certain adjustments we can make, and they allowed us to understand a lot of things today. So, it was a positive session. Lewis? I think it's always important to have a discussion, but ultimately, I don't think there's any point in continuing to talk about it for so long. We've already been talking about it for so many days. Lewis and I have spoken, and for me, that's really the most important thing: clearing the air. I told Lewis what I thought, and he told me what he thought. We don't always have to agree, but I also think it's important to put this chapter behind us.” #F1 #BrazilGP 🇧🇷