Pierre Wache: 'It was a difficult day today'

Published on 07 November 2025 by Johan Peeters

Pierre Wache, technical director at Oracle Red Bull Racing, reflects after Friday’s sprint qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix: "It was a difficult day today. To be honest the sprint format always throws up difficulties across the weekend. The car isn’t behaving as we expected here, especially on the soft tyre. On that compound the car looks like something is wrong with it and is not performing. We are looking into a lot things overnight to see if we have to change something.”

“We are investigating what the issue is, it’s across both cars and we are aiming to have the car in a better window for the rest of the weekend. This is all a good learning for tomorrow, for Qualifying and then for the race. Finally, a well done to the Team in the garage who did a very good job to repair Yuki’s car so quickly in FP1, to give him the chance to get back out there and collect important learnings."

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