Racing Bulls
Isack Hadjar
“I think we showed some good moments today despite having a tough race overall. We struggled during the first stint and at some points throughout the race, I got stuck in traffic and had to play with damage limitation. I started to have more fun from mid-race onwards, and during the last laps where I got closer to Liam. I pushed the car a bit too much and I made a mistake in trying to overtake him, but we brought home a P7 and P8, which is a nice double-points finish for the team. We’ll regroup together to analyse what we could have done better before starting the last triple-header of the year in Las Vegas in two weeks."
Liam Lawson
"I'm super happy with today's result. It was very tough towards the end as we opted for a one stop strategy. The tyres were in good shape at that point, but it's super sensitive around here. If you push too much in one corner, you pay the price in the next one, therefore tyre management was key. On top of that, I was trying to manage energy to make sure I had power down the straights. The strategy worked well for us, so a big congratulations to the team - it's been a massive effort to have both cars in the points today.”
Alan Permane, Team Principal
“Firstly, congratulations to the whole team today! It’s been a barren spell for us, so to come back here and qualify so well, to then having both cars in the points is a superb effort. We didn’t have the pace of Bearman in the Haas today, but we outscore all our rivals in the Championship and give ourselves a healthier gap to 7th in the constructors championship. It was very close between both Liam and Isack; we split the strategies, and they ended up racing each other, which we trusted them to do, and Liam came out on top with an excellently managed one-stop strategy.
“We have two weeks until Las Vegas where we head into one of the toughest sequences of the year with the final triple header. What will be important is preparing well for Vegas but also making sure that everyone gets some time to recover and refresh.”
