We gave absolutely everything to recover and managed to get back to P4, which is not too bad given the circumstances, but it's far from ideal. But with no warning, he lost power and was forced into a first retirement of the season. Nonetheless sixth is still a good outing and keeps his record of finishing in the points in every race he's seen the chequered flag going. We now need to ensure we put ourselves in a position where we're battling for the higher points-scoring places on a more regular basis. Thought you'd never ask. On Daniel's side unfortunately, after getting into Q3 yesterday, we were struggling a lot with the rear of the car whenever we tried to push more, and went backwards in the race finishing in P12. Guenther Steiner, Team Principal. Mario Isola, Motorsport Director. Everyone's tyres were falling to pieces and lots of drivers pitted fairly early, so we tried something different by opting for a two-stopper. "Clearly, we're not happy with today's result.
"Alex had a strong start and opening stint and although he wasn't able to make much progress initially, he was able to stay with the pack and give us an opportunity to make progress with strategy. Memorize vocabulary. To go from 20th, and last, on the grid with Fernando and 12th with Esteban to eight points in the bag at the end is certainly satisfying and well deserved. "From our starting positions of P16 for Sebastian and P17 for Lance, scoring points today was always going to be a challenge. "A pity for Charles, as he retired when he was leading, but we will work as a team to come back stronger in Monaco. Carlos finished fourth, coming back from a difficult situation. We scored one point and I think that's the most we could get out of this weekend after a difficult Qualifying session. There were a few things, first of all the interaction between Kevin and [Lewis] Hamilton in Turn 4 which put him out of the race really. Hopefully we continue this momentum on to Monaco and are strong next weekend too. We unlocked the potential of the car by tweaking things on the stops and so today was the most valuable race for us to compare the two cars, across setups and tyres.
Valtteri Bottas, 6th. Jody Egginton, Technical Director. The Memrise secret sauce. A gust of wind threw me off in turn 4 and unfortunately, my car was damaged. As for Stroll, he was tipped into a spin late on by Gasly when he was trying to overtake the Frenchman, and lost time as a result. "It was blisteringly hot today, which pushed everything to the limit. Alonso was at the rear of the field after taking on new PU components, which he put to good use at the start as he made up five places. "It's a great result, we are leading the Constructors Championship so, although I obviously want to win, I have to be realistic and I am happy with the Team result. Several jockeys were arrested on suspicion of fixing the race. "The entire team here at the track and back home did a great job in the recent weeks and days to bring all the upgrades to the car this weekend and race it on both cars. The most encouraging thing is the improvement in pace that we have seen this weekend; a lot of hard work has gone into understanding the issues and bringing parts to the track for this race. We have some homework to do over the next couple of days to understand why. Fernando Alonso, 9th. I've been a bit on the backfoot this weekend as most of my energy has been spent fighting off this illness.
Lewis didn't have any luck, Magnussen's move on Lap 1 caused a puncture that left him nearly a minute behind the leaders and with a mountain to climb just to make the points. "It wasn't a good race today. I think we were on a tough strategy because of the first lap incident but when the tyres were sort of new, the car was good. The biggest positive from today was the amazing crowd in the grandstands supporting us, so I want to really thank every fan out there for their support. He was not therefore able to convert his good race pace into a points result today, but it indicated the promising performance potential of our updated car. "We experienced another race in which we showed just how quick we can be, and to bring home eight more points, finishing just behind the front runners, is a positive result. Learn Spanish with Memrise. I am fully supportive of the FIA's ideas and we want to work with them to improve the show for the fans. It was a great first stint with some good overtakes and, overall, I don't think there is anything we could have done better. Mattia Binotto, Team Principal. The race pace at the beginning was reasonable on the Softs, but after a few laps we decided to go for a three-stop strategy, so we called Yuki in to change to the Mediums.
"Today was super tough! However, I think we've still got a lot of work to do to be able to be higher up the midfield. If an athlete makes a false start, the race must be restarted. It wasn't about Team orders today, what really changed my race was going onto different tyre strategies and that worked better for Max and, at the end of the day, the Team because we managed to both get past George. Finally, I want to pay tribute to the great work done by the team to get two updated cars ready for this event; we are all looking forward to working hard to achieve better results with them at Monaco next weekend and in the races to come. Nicholas Latifi, 16th. We had to pit and check over the car, so that cost us up to 30 seconds. Lewis Hamilton, 5th. With the hot conditions moving the race to a three stop for the majority, track position was key, and Yuki's final stop was timed to prevent Vettel, who was one of the two stoppers, getting ahead when we stopped and this worked out well. "The team have been working really hard to bring performance to the car, so I'm glad we could take something from the weekend. "So far this year, the team has been doing an incredible job in terms of reliability.
Then it was a case of getting past Schumacher and trying to get back on terms with Alonso, who had got ahead earlier in the race. There was a wide variety of strategies seen throughout the field, with drivers willing to push the limits and target three stops, adding to the spectacle of an extremely hard-fought race: also because these cars make it easier to overtake. We'll look at the data over the next few days, see if there's any additional performance we can extract from the car and make sure we're ready to go for Monaco. BARCELONA, SPAIN - MAY 22: 17th placed Kevin Magnussen of Denmark and Haas F1 walks in parc ferme during the F1 Grand Prix of Spain at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on May 22, 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.
"My thanks to the whole team here at the track and back at the factory, together with our colleagues at Mercedes HPP for their efforts over the weekend and for their incredible work to bring the upgrade. That being said, I'm happy with the way that we managed the tyres and it's nice to have an aggressive strategy that allowed us to push and race a bit more. Thanks to the trials and tribulations of the frontrunners, he found himself third at one point, but looked to be settling for fourth when he was passed late on by both Sainz and Hamilton, soon lamenting that his two-stop strategy wasn't the right choice. READ MORE: 'This is the start of our season' says podium finisher Russell after duelling with Verstappen in Spain. Mike Krack, Team Principal.
We are on a good trajectory and we can be proud of that as a Team, but as you can see, some things are fragile and we need to keep on working hard, we have to be on top of everything. Not as planned but onwards and upwards. People should not be stigmatized on the basis of race. The atmosphere was special today and even though we were starting last I feel like we managed to put a show on for the fans. Belt UK Traffic was belting along the motorway. It was a real race against time to get all the costumes sewn for the play. FACTS AND STATS: Sainz's best-ever home race as Verstappen goes one better than girlfriend's dad.
I was just congratulating Ceri on winning her race. Lando together with the team maximised everything we had in our hands today and finished in P8. Not to be for Haas after the highs of getting both cars into Q3. We can be pleased about our performance, even more so given that we were not expecting Barcelona to suit us too well, so we can be confident we can be competitive on every race weekend.