Finding the Silver Linings: Reflecting on the Weekend’s Racing Positives and Setbacks

Can you take some positives from this weekend? I know yesterday was disappointing, but there are some positives to be taken from this weekend overall at all. I think the only positive to take is that we have good reliability, but everyone around us did too. So, um, ultimately, I think we. We didn’t have the race pace today for. I’m not quite sure why. I think even if I had started further ahead, would have been hard to have. Even if I was ahead of a Ferrari. Ferraris or they would have come out ahead. They just had more pace than us, so. But they had an upgrade this weekend and we didn’t. And so it’s just how it goes. There’ll be a race, hopefully that we’ll have an upgrade and others won’t, and we’ll be stronger. Maybe, but, uh, it’s very, very fine. Um, small margins. Yeah. Between all this, uh. And. Yeah, unfortunately, today we just didn’t have the pace. We had more deck than the cars ahead, so I could have probably done a one stop, but I would have come out the exact same place as. It was interesting hearing George talk about the teams. Everyone seems a little bit confused. He said this is a really strange year in Formula 1 because Ferrari have. Ferrari have surprised themselves and everyone else by winning today. Clarence didn’t have the pace they thought they would have over them. Red Bull don’t know where they are. Is that Kind of the feeling at the moment. Everybody’s scratching their heads a little bit in the sport. I don’t know. I think. I mean, look at the race, trace. I think McLaren had the pace. They just pushed too hard. They were doing much too fast laps early on and killed their tires. And. And they, I guess they, they literally had planned for a two stop. That’s why they’re pushing so hard. They just backed off and gone longer. They could for sure have made a one stop. Um, but I could tell I. I was getting the information of the tire, the times they were doing, and there’s no way your tires are gonna last at that pace. Um, and, um, Charles did a fantastic job today, so really well done to him. For us, uh, uh, we were planning to do a one stop. My tires were just dropping off. Just trying to hold on to, uh, to Carlos. So, uh, definitely unexpected, but as I said, they had an upgrade this weekend, so it was inevitable they would be quick compared to us. But, uh, yeah, we wish. I wish we were closer and more in the fight. But, um, onwards and upwards. Thank you.