Racing Bulls
Isack Hadjar
"It was a difficult Sunday here in Montréal. I had high graining on the medium tyres at the start of the race and unfortunately, I think we pitted a little bit too late, which made us lose a few places. After that, I just got stuck in a DRS train for the rest of the race, and towards the end, we didn’t really have much pace and therefore got past from other cars. Since the start of the weekend we’ve been struggling a bit with the car, so we’ll review everything together with the team and we’ll get back pushing always more in Austria in two weeks time.”
Liam Lawson
“It was always going to be a difficult race starting from the pit lane, but we took the decision to install a new PU after a tough Quali yesterday. A cooling issue towards the end of today's race meant we unfortunately had to retire, which is a shame given the pace of the car this weekend was good. We'll keep working on the speed and I'll keep working on myself to reset ahead of Austria."
Laurent Mekies
“We arrived in Montréal with good expectations after three very strong weekends in Europe. However, we knew how tough this circuit is and how intense the battle in the midfield would be. Yesterday’s Qualifying was another strong performance for Isack who qualified P9 before he got penalized. The mistake was on our side as we failed to give him the right information about Carlos coming behind. Everything started to become a bit more difficult today with Isack starting in P12 and Liam from the pit lane, as we took the opportunity to introduce a new PU on his car after a difficult result in Qualifying.
"The hard fact is that we didn’t have enough pace today to fight in the top ten. Isack suffered high graining on his tyres during the first stint on the mediums and sadly we had to retire Liam’s car due to an issue in the cooling system. It’s a tight battle in the midfield and even only one-tenth can make the difference, and today it was enough to drop back instead of attacking forward.
"Looking back at the last few months, every single improvement we’ve made as a team has been made after tough weekends like this one in Canada. We certainly take some positives from this weekend and the fight is on, so we’ll keep pushing all together in Faenza and Milton Keynes to come back stronger. Hopefully, we’ll be able to do it straight away at our next home race in Austria in a couple of weeks."
