Haas F1 Team
Nico Hulkenberg
"I don't think we could've got any higher than P10 probably, and Tsunoda was 50 seconds behind Hamilton, so I didn't have that kind of pace. I had one good start and one really bad start – the car went into anti-stall. After that, I got my head down as I think the pace was pretty good for the midfield. I did a long stint on the hard at first, and a 'splash and dash' on the second set so that I could really show some pace. I take our race pace as a positive, it was better than what I expected before the race so that's a relief and promising for China and going forwards."
Kevin Magnussen
"At one point I was running inside the top 10 – I didn't know what those around me were doing so I wasn't sure if it was realistic or not – but I was trying. With the tyres we had, the red flag effectively helped a few people and they were able to do a one-stop from hard to hard, where I had to do two stops from medium to hard, so that was tough. I had to pit quite early for the second stint on the hard tyres, so it was a bit tricky. We're there or thereabouts in the races again, so that's encouraging and gives some hope for coming races that we can be in the hunt for points."
Ayao Komatsu, team principal
"There are mixed feelings because in the end, we missed out being in the top 10 by five seconds with Nico which is very frustrating. On the positive side, our race pace today was much better than what we saw earlier in the weekend, so the changes the team made after FP3 and before qualifying worked well. We just needed to get there sooner this weekend as we started off with the wrong car balance and FP2 was wet – it put us on the backfoot – so that's something we as a team need to improve. Today with Nico, the first start was fine but on the second start he didn't do the procedure correctly so he went into anti-stall and lost positions. From there to recover to almost scoring points was very encouraging, so that's the positive we're going to take."
