Red Bull
Max Verstappen
"The first morning I didn’t get to do too many laps with the weather basically, but today was good. I did a lot of laps, we learned a lot. Still a lot of things that we want to look into and do better, but that’s normal I guess. In general for us with the new engine, to do the amount of laps that we did is very nice and it’s a good start for us.
"So, yeah, positive, but it’s still very early days. [The engine is] still a work in progress, but I think we’ve hit the ground running quite well with those things. It’s still a very complicated formula I think for everyone, so there’s still quite a bit of work to do, but it’s normal."
Isack Hadjar
"It was pretty productive. Surprisingly we managed to do a lot more laps than we expected. Everything went pretty smooth. We had only minor issues, so it’s quite impressive considering it’s our first day with our own engine, so that was definitely smooth."
Laurent Mekies, Team Principal
"We knew it would be a very special moment to be here for the first time with the RB22 with our own power unit, so it came with that special atmosphere and tensions. The last few months and weeks have been incredibly hectic to be ready, but ultimately we were ready on Monday morning to run.
"I can only take the opportunity to say a big thank you and well done to everybody back in Milton Keynes, chassis-side, power unit-side, because it was incredible to see the car going out at a few minutes past nine on Monday morning with our own power unit. We knew we have to do our homework and we have to do it step by step."
