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Team Talk - Sunday in Sochi

Alfa Romeo


Antonio Giovinazzi
"It was a positive race in which we achieved the maximum we could, especially starting from 17th. The start was really good, we once again made up a good few places, and I felt I could push and fight the cars around me. I was happy with our pace and for sure we closed the gap a bit more, so we need to continue like this. It's always frustrating to finish just one place outside the points, but I am still happy with today's result and with the confidence it gives us going forward."

Kimi Raikkonen
"The car was behaving well and we had good speed, but Sochi is a difficult place to pass and we couldn't climb up into the points. Considering where we started the race, we probably got all we could from the race: even the slow stop didn't change the end result too much. Antonio in P11 was just a few seconds ahead of me and I could have probably been around there, but in the end P10 was too far ahead. We showed we have speed during the race and that's a positive for the next rounds."

Frédéric Vasseur, team principal
"We had good speed today and both cars made considerable progress from our grid positions, so we can say that we got as much as we could out of today's race. Yesterday's difficult qualifying, where we didn't get everything our speed would have warranted, always meant we would have our work cut out today, but to make up ground and leave behind several of our rivals shows we have found the performance we lacked earlier in the season. We need to keep moving in this direction to continue closing the gap within the midfield and keep fighting for top ten finishes."

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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