Haas F1 Team
Nikita Mazepin
"It was quite an impact unfortunately. We benefitted from a position of not stopping and I was fighting with Stroll coming out of T2. The next is always easy flat and it was meant to be for both cars but all of a sudden, the car in front – which was Russell – he braked. I also tried to brake but there was nowhere to stop from 200 to zero, so I collected him and looking at the replay there was a car on the inside that he was trying to avoid himself."
Mick Schumacher
"Unfortunately, it seems like I was pushing a bit too much trying to get back into the DRS window of Russell and lost it going into T23. The pace seemed to be there, we were comfortably keeping up with the Williams and I think that was what we really weren't anticipating, therefore being highly motivated but maybe a bit too much in that case. That one point is still the target, so hopefully we'll manage to get it there."
Guenther Steiner, team principal
"A disappointing day today with two crashed cars in the penultimate race of the year. Mick just tried to keep up with the Williams, which didn't work out, and Nikita got himself into a position where he couldn't do anything about it – he was a passenger of whatever happened in front of him. Unfortunate but one more to go and then we move on."
