Dutch GP: Difficult race for Atlassian Williams F1 Team

Alex Albon:
"In clean air the car felt good today, not far off the midfield pace, so there are positives to take. The moment with Carlos was just one of those racing incidents – we were going for the same corner and he locked up. It's not how we wanted to end the weekend, and not what the team needs, but it is what it is and we'll discuss together as we always do.

We need to review our strategy today as we were fighting Fernando and he finished ahead – I think we pitted too early on the first stop, reacting to a potential undercut rather than running our own race. That left us catching a lot of blue flags and stuck in dirty air, which made my second stint messy. We'll review everything as a team and look forward to a cleaner weekend in Monza."

Carlos Sainz:
"First of all, sorry to Alex and the team for the contact at the end of the race. I had very worn hard tyres and braked over the bump in turn 1, locked up and couldn’t stop the car in time. It was obviously the last thing I wanted to end an already tough weekend. Again, apologies to him and the team.

Overall, we struggled to get into a good rhythm throughout the weekend and had to run a number of tests to explore the issues we were having, which put us on the backfoot and meant we weren't able to fight for any more today. The positive is that we've found some solutions and have good learnings to take forward to the upcoming races, so we'll look to come back stronger in Monza."

James Vowles, Team Principal:
"Tough day. I was hoping the weather would stay for longer, as I think we could've had an interesting race in those mixed conditions but unfortunately, not meant to be.

We don't have the car pace. We need to make sure that we bring performance to the car, efficiently and quickly, however that won't be for a few races.

Whilst our cars came together, we put Carlos in a tricky situation of being on very used tyres, and for us, whether we're fighting for 14th or points, we want to make sure we give it the same level of tenacity and determination. Unfortunately, we accumulated a bit of damage this weekend, so we need to use the break before Monza to get back on top of that."