01/11/2026
Shintaro Orihara summarises qualifying day in Mexico City:
“After FP2, our HRC engineers trackside and in Sakura analysed the data for qualifying today. In final practice we found some driveability and turbo lag areas to improve upon, which we modified before quali.
Unfortunately, on Fernando’s car during qualifying, we saw abnormal signals on the water systems and stopped on track. We will therefore replace some components for the race.
We will carry out this work tonight and prepare for tomorrow. Traffic conditions will be important, so we will prepare options to manage this as well as power unit temperatures.”
