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  • Yeah, I do think that it was a very good team effort today. We made the right calls

  • We remain calm, you know when it was sometimes a little bit hectic to make the right call

  • See, I'm very happy with that

  • Yeah, I think in at times in the race we didn't look the quickest but yeah, we we were there at the right time

  • So very happy with that

  • You know, it's been a challenging weekend again for us but to come out of it as a winner

  • Of course, I think that hey Lando just how good was it to be fine for the win again?

  • Even though I know ultimately didn't quite have enough to get it today. I mean we did we had every read the speed to win

  • Just I got unlucky with the safety car. You know, I was I was leading by 15 seconds and the safety cars screwed me over but

  • Sometimes it's like that and

  • The same case, you know the safety car helped me in Miami. It helped me win a race today. It helped me lose the race

  • I think we would have won otherwise, but

  • It's just the way of racing sometimes it's on your side sometimes it's not so it's it's always a

  • Tougher one to take when it's not on your side and you lose out like today. Yeah mixed emotions because I

  • Thought I made one too many mistakes out there

  • Maybe been a bit hard on myself because looking back, you know, everybody made mistakes at some point in the race

  • And each have different consequences I think

  • You know the pace was so strong at the end

  • But ultimately it was a mistake before that put me in p3 which allowed me to take the new tire

  • So, you know you can argue maybe without the mistake

  • I'd have been in p2 on the on the hard tire and who knows what the pace would have been so

  • You know in the end so many positives to take away from this race. It wasn't a positive race for me

  • Pretty one. It felt like one of my worst drives that I've had bits of

  • Good speed at some points, but ultimately

  • Really poor weekend for myself

  • See qualify and put myself back there and then I was stuck behind Fernando for a long long time would expect and

  • After that lost a lot of ground then lost another bunch of ground and went off and just anyways

  • The positive is the car is progressing is moving forward

  • So I think if I qualified the way I should have I would have been competing for the win

  • Yeah, I think just maybe a few things in the race where

  • If we did things a little bit better

  • You know myself and the team then we could have had a bit of a better result or maybe a better chance of a better

  • Result, you know, I think at the end. We were a little bit vulnerable to the Mercedes on on new tires and

  • Yeah, obviously being the the second car in the team or you know, the first car that they've got an attack. Yeah fantastic

  • I think race for for the team obviously

  • Scoring with both cars. It's always the target and six and seven is a good number of points extremely difficult race with the conditions that

  • Majority of the race you the track was just two meters wide. You cannot put a tire outside of that dry line

  • So that is very very stressful and yeah

  • Congratulations to everybody because it was I think a difficult race in the cockpit

  • Yeah, I mean, I think the track really suited us

  • We knew that coming into the weekend that this would be a good track for us, but

  • It's good that we capitalized on it. And you know six and seven for a lot of points for the team

  • It's you know, we have to take advantage when when we're you know

  • You know points going position the cars competitive and today we did that a little bit of relief at the end to get back into the points for a while we dropped out and yeah, I mean a few reasons we we had a it was weird because I got told I had a five-second penalty for a jump start, but I

  • Know I didn't jump the lights. So I was a bit confused. So I obviously questioned it, but

  • But then I I remember I feel like when I was

  • Finding the revs for the start. It's um, I felt like maybe the car like cuz I'm watching the lights

  • But I felt maybe the car was moving so

  • Yeah, Pierce said obviously we had a bit of an issue. So perhaps a clutch or something. Yeah, very happy especially after the

  • Pretty dramatic starts we had a small touch with Checo and all of a sudden I was facing the wall on the inside and all the cars passing next to me, so yeah, clearly not the ideal style almost dropped to last and then after that I

  • Decent battle with him managed to get past him and

  • And then yeah, what a race after that just very tricky

  • I had to make some pretty risky call with a hard tire

  • Which I thought from the position we were in if I wanted to recover I had to take some risk and looking back

  • It was a lap too early

  • But then you know inside the car I knew if I don't do it now then

  • It's probably gonna be too late and I won't get an advantage. Yeah

  • Not the happiest to be honest. Obviously, we we started last and got into the points with both cars, which is amazing for the team, but

  • You know, I did my part of the job, you know being a team player being the nice guy but too nice I am but

  • Yeah, we had to let Pierre go at the end, which I've done, you know, I've always followed the instructions that I've been given

  • But for for no reason really because you know, we were not gonna catch Daniel that was the reason for the call

  • And obviously I'm losing I'm losing a point there, you know being too nice is is not the right attitude

  • To have in Formula One, but I show that I'm a team player and that's what matters. Hey Nico

  • That was a heck of a cat-like response to miss there

  • You can spin and you can know that kind of what went through your mind when you saw him sliding across the track in front of me

  • Yeah, I mean

  • Code brown probably

  • I don't know. I just tried to react and try to stop it and then somehow avoid him

  • But it must have been like, you know

  • By a few millimeters. It felt very very close

  • So I have closed my eyes already I was, you know bracing for the impact but yeah managed luckily somehow to

  • To escape it. Obviously the team

  • Gambled on the wet that was the right thing to do in that early phase and it kind of put you in a position to

  • Almost take points today. Yeah, I'm gonna feel overall. Yeah, I think obviously first ten laps were going really well but then it dried out and all that came undone again, so

  • But yeah, that was that

  • We knew we're not, you know about about that risk or not risk about that scenario and then

  • Nothing clean race. No mistakes at least. Yeah, it didn't feel like we've got the best out of it today

  • With all the opportunity that the race offered

  • We didn't seem to capitalize on that. So that's disappointing

  • But you know, we'll review it and really try to understand it right now it's all a bit blurry but

  • Yeah

  • There was lots of opportunity that's for sure we didn't we didn't get any points so

  • Gotta gotta look into things obviously had that slow stop which obviously dropped you back after all that hard work

  • Do you think without that you would have maybe had it was it just ultimately the pace and wasn't enough to keep in we had one very slow and one just medium slow and then I also think we would pit it for

  • Inter's off the full wets too early and had to take another inter which

  • Felt unnecessary, but I have to look into it properly to see to make sure I'm right and saying that but yeah felt like there was something coming there in the beginning of the race and

  • Nothing to show for it. I think with the conditions we had today

  • It was probably the right thing to do to try and try and do something and I think it helped a bit a bit more downforce, but still

  • Yeah, we made progress but mainly due to other cars

  • Making mistakes etc. So pace wise. We're still not not in top ten at the moment

  • Hey, you keep up into the last couple of laps. You were driving such a strong race

  • Just talk me through that moment. We just ran off track and obviously lost the car. Yeah, that was my fault

  • Yeah, I was struggling quite a lot with the brake by early stages, but yeah

  • My

  • Mistake how tough is that to take given the cars obviously being so strong this weekend and you were very much on chance to score points

  • Yeah, such a stupid move

  • It is what it is at the moment I would just another tough tough race

  • Obviously don't really kind of a solve the issue, but it was quite a bit of going on

  • But for me, it was better lonely race, especially

  • Yeah join the mid second thing it was just kind of a driving alone, so yeah, not the smoothest weekend, but

  • Clever something already planned in the factory to be checking to obviously this week

  • I don't really have much confident all together with the car. Yeah, not a lot of pace this weekend

  • Not even in the intertire. We we expected maybe to be a bit stronger there

  • But yeah, a lot of sliding around and no no feeling with the car

  • And yeah, when it once it dried out we were starting to make some kind of progress and yeah

  • I was also having to take quite a bit of risks

  • You know to stay in the BRS train and overtake and I did a driver mistake

  • But yeah, not ideal not not our weekend for anyone in the team and we'll try and reset and go again

  • When I look at the the race as a whole it seemed like we kind of we didn't take much risk in our strategy

  • But we were making good calls the whole the whole time

  • You know if you look at the house

  • They kind of they did a good gamble on the wets beginning of the race and you look at some of the guys that stayed out on the inter

  • Not pitting for a new one in the middle of the race

  • We kind of just did what we felt was right for us and and even if it didn't work out in sometimes

  • We kept getting back to positions. We kept fighting back into the points and I was enjoying it out there

  • That didn't kind of conditions risk conditions. There's a lot to play for and I was having a lot of fun and

  • Then two laps in a row

  • Two drivers went off in the same corner the first one. I lost position

  • I had to avoid the crash and then the lack after Carlos obviously had his spin

  • Honestly, there's not much more to say apart from the engine issue cost us everything then at one point

  • We decided we tried to go on the slicks when we knew it was going to be

  • More chances that he more chances that he wouldn't work but we had to test something because anyway with the engine issues we had we will have been out the points anyway, and

  • That was it really after that it was just extremely tricky to

  • Do all the engine changes that the team was asking me at the same time. We're still losing a second and a half first rate so we've got to look into the engine issue because

  • Yeah, that's going to be tricky for the rest of the season. No, just not good enough too many mistakes too very punishing ones and

  • Yeah for sure disappointed myself after feeling like I was driving great this weekend so move on and

  • Just look at

Yeah, I do think that it was a very good team effort today. We made the right calls

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