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Nicholas Latifi:
"I went a
little off the line in turn six, there must have been a lot of marbles
from the junior categories and I understeered right off. It felt like
driving in the wet on slick tyres. I dipped the wheel in the gravel, and
it spun the rear around which caught me by surprise quite a bit. I
thought I would go straight into the gravel and come back on slowly, but
Instead I spun across the track as a result and made contact with
Valtteri [Bottas]. My race was compromised from there as that set of
tyres we needed to make the two-stop strategy work were damaged. One to
forget but we'll try and bounce back In Zandvoort." |
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Alex Albon:
"This was one of the tougher races I’ve done in my career and also
one of my personal bests. We did the best job we could today and it’s a
good feeling. On the lap to the grid, it was clear that tyre degradation
was going to be really high and hotter track temperatures than we have
had the rest of the weekend made tyre wear worse. On the final stint I
was thinking about three-stopping, but we held on, kept Lance [Stroll]
behind and then it was about not making any mistakes. I think, as a
whole, we executed the weekend from FP1 onwards well, maximised the
positive of our car being quick on the straights, and made no mistakes.
We experimented, made the best of the tyres in qualifying and maximised
the results potential in the race, so I’m very happy. As a team, we had
a complete weekend and that’s what it shows; when you don’t have the
fastest car but you do everything right, you can still come away with a
point or two." |
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Dave Robson, Head of Vehicle Performance:
"Tyre
degradation today was higher than we had anticipated, which meant at
least two stops were required. Nicholas’s race was largely determined by
the collision with Valtteri [Bottas] early in the race, which required
him to pit for a new front wing. His start set of tyres were also
damaged and so we chose to complete two further stops using a Soft tyre
for the final stint.
Alex had a difficult start and lost places initially before recovering
on the opening lap. We chose to pit him relatively early at each stop to
give him the best chance of holding track position and using his
straight-line speed advantage to defend. We asked a lot of him in the
final stint and he was under a lot of pressure from the cars behind for
whole of that stint. He drove very well and played his hand without
fault to deliver another hard-earned point." |
