Honda: "There is still room for improvement for qualifying and race"

It was a positive day for Red Bull Racing and Honda as the Belgian Grand Prix weekend got underway. Max Verstappen was able to top the timesheets in FP2 and Toyoharu Tanabe admitted the day went pretty smoothly.

"The first day of practice for the Belgian Grand Prix went fairly smoothly with both our teams and we got through our programme, as fortunately there was no real rain today," explained Toyoharu Tanabe on Friday afternoon. "However, we lost a little bit of time in FP1 while damage to Gasly’s car was repaired. Therefore, we have had a good start to our weekend."

FP2 was particularly fruitful for Honda as Red Bull started to show what they were capable of. Verstappen was fastest and Alexander Albon was fourth behind by less than four-tenths. That gap has been bigger in recent weeks. Honda thinks there's more in the barrel for tomorrow.