Haas F1 Team
Nikita Mazepin
"The race organizers have done an amazing job since last year to improve the conditions for the drivers. From my side, it was pure joy to be here all weekend. I did a clean race out there, stayed out of trouble in the first lap and drove the best I could. Unfortunately, you know the conditions were very weird today in the respect that the track never really dried out. I didn't anticipate that the intermediate tyres needed time to get into the slick condition to give us good times. These conditions are priceless because as much as they're difficult to drive in, they're very useful."
Mick Schumacher
"We knew it was going to be tough and I think because there was no real chaos, the result that we drove today was realistic anyway. Again, we learned a lot, we learned how to be competitive at the race start and we just have to analyze how we do it even better. Overall, it's been a very positive weekend. There's no reason for me to be sad because I'm not in the championship fight, so anything good from this weekend – I'll take it – and anything bad I will leave it behind and learn from it."
Guenther Steiner, team principal
"Not the race we wanted to have. After Mick got away pretty good at the start, he lost a couple of positions and then got hit by Alonso, and that put him back where we were and we couldn't get out of that hole. Once we got into blue flags, it's a downwards spiral. We got to the end of the race without issues. Staying out there and learning about the conditions was the only thing we could do and that's what we did today – the cars are back safe and it's again in our book of learning."
