Ferrari
Charles Leclerc
"It's been a disappointing day on my side. Starting from P2, we were hoping to bring home plenty of points to move up in the championship fight, but unfortunately, we had to retire early.
"Coming into turn 6 on the formation lap, I lost my power steering and the wheel went stiff, also locking up the rears.
"I'm focused on the last two races of the season now, we won't give up and will fight to finish with the best constructors' classification result we can achieve. I will give it everything in Las Vegas. "
Carlos Sainz
"It was a difficult day. The starts were not good due to a clutch problem that we also had yesterday and we lost some positions there.
"From there on, I was able to pass both Mercedes on track, but that was it. Unfortunately, today Aston Martin, Red Bull and McLaren were faster than us and P6 was the maximum.
"It is a big shame that Charles didn't have the chance to start the race as we could have scored very important points against Mercedes here in Brazil.
"Now it's time to recharge our batteries and hopefully we will be back in good form in Las Vegas."
Frederic Vasseur, team principal
"We are very disappointed because we could have scored plenty of important points for the championship, but we lost Charles even before the start due to a reliability problem, which sent him off the track on the formation lap. He would have been starting on the front row and on top of that, we had sacrificed his Sprint chances yesterday to favour today's Grand Prix. Now we must investigate carefully to see exactly what happened with his car.
"Carlos' weekend was not without its own difficulties and he struggled at the start with the clutch, losing a few places. However, in the race, especially the first stint, he did a very good job of managing the tyres and was able to go and pass both Mercedes which means that over the course of the weekend we made up two points on our rivals. It could have been so much more, but nevertheless, the fight for second place is still on."
