Haas F1 Team
Nico Hulkenberg
"It was a faultless and clean race from my side today. I think it was a well-managed and well-controlled race from the team. It's a positive and I'm very happy about that – we got that one point that was up for grabs today. One of the top-five team's cars had a problem and that's the spot we got because of it, otherwise it's not really possible to race with them. It also shows we need to have a perfect qualifying on Saturday and a perfect race on Sunday to be able to be where we are today. We couldn't have done much more. One point, in our world, is a lot!"
Kevin Magnussen
"It just really wasn't our day today to be honest. We started 17th after a bad qualifying yesterday – we took the consequence of that today. Sometimes you can make it back, but today we couldn't. We had attempted a one-stop strategy, we had to bail out because the degradation was too high on the hard. As soon as I came out on the new hard rubber, I had the puncture because of the incident with Yuki – so had to pit again for the medium. I effectively had to do a one-stop anyway, even though we didn't want to. Things were working well with the car though, we seem to have decent pace in it, that was also the case in Sprint qualifying and the Sprint race earlier in the weekend."
Ayao Komatsu, team principal
"It was amazing to get a point again today with Nico. In terms of Nico's race, from everyone – driving, operations, pit-stop, it was perfection. We knew exactly what we had to do in terms of getting ourselves into a good position to get that point – initially against Bottas. Both communication and execution were good. Honestly, I think we managed to execute a perfect race with Nico – it was brilliant. With Kevin, unfortunately we didn't have luck from qualifying, so we started from the back and couldn't really do the race we wanted to do. Now we look forward to Miami. I think we can take a lot of confidence from this race."
