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Ericsson proud of race recovery

Marcus Ericsson says scoring his first points “was a big goal achieved” as he finished eighth in the Australian Grand Prix.

Having started outside the top ten, Ericsson completed a three-stop strategy and overtook Carlos Sainz Jr late in the race to take eighth, three places behind team-mate Felipe Nasr. While pleased to get his first career points having driven for Caterham last year, Ericsson says being able to bounce back from a tough weekend with a strong race performance was the biggest positive for him.

“It was a big goal achieved so I’m really happy, of course,” Ericsson said.

“I’m not 100% happy with how [the weekend] went. It was a difficult weekend but also I was a bit unlucky with practice two; I only did ten laps and then my suspension broke, then we had brake issues on Saturday in FP3.

“So that held me back quite a lot in qualifying yesterday so I was not too happy with that going out in Q1, but I think I made up for that with a strong race and some good moves on Carlos.

“I think overall we have to be happy, and to have both cars in the points as well is a great start to the season.”

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Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.