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Sauber drivers revel in ‘great achievement’

Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson describe it as “a great achievement” for Sauber to score points with both cars in the Chinese Grand Prix.

Having got both cars in to the top ten during qualifying, Sauber converted that in to a double points finish. Ericsson enjoyed a number of exciting battles with Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull on his way to tenth place, while Nasr’s race was a little less eventful as he came home eighth and the Brazilian took satisfaction from getting the most out of the car in Shanghai.

“It was a great day for the team, as both cars scored points,” Nasr said. “I am very pleased for everyone. It was not an easy race for us, we were fighting against Lotus and Toro Rosso, and they seemed to have a better pace than us. For myself, I extracted everything I could from the car and also the strategy, so we can be satisfied with this result.”

Ericsson was ultimately unsuccessful in trying to hold off Ricciardo and admitted his race pace was not as good as he had hoped, but was still pleased to score.

“First of all, another great achievement for the team,” Ericsson said. “Our target was to get both cars into the points, and in the end we managed to achieve that objective. My race was quite tough with a lot of fights all through it.

“I hoped our race pace would have been a bit stronger. I was struggling a bit to get the front tyres to work properly, so I could not maintain the pace the way I wanted to. Nevertheless, there were some great fights out there. I think I had a good race, and I am really happy to have finished in the points.”

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Andrew Lewin

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.