Lando Norris: “A great day. Very pleased with the outcome ultimately. The tempo was very sturdy at this time. We must always have completed P5 or P6 however we misplaced a number of positions with a problem at the beginning, which compromised our race. Robust, particularly on a day once we may have scored some actually good factors. Nevertheless, there’s plenty of positives popping out of this weekend. Some sturdy issues to attempt to stick with it to subsequent time. So, we’ll maintain working laborious and attempt to preserve this momentum for the subsequent few races.”
Daniel Ricciardo: “It was good to start out on the entrance and get a good begin. Lando regarded like he had a poor begin so I received forward of him and it was good to be in third there, however I noticed rapidly Max (Verstappen) was proper behind me and he was clearly on one other stage. I used to be simply attempting to set a rhythm in fourth, however we weren’t fast sufficient. I felt like I used to be doing an excellent job to carry off Gasly however did not have way more to point out than that. It was a busy race, attempting to carry on, do what I may after which yeah, felt like we received just a little little bit of a rhythm on the Hards with 10-15 laps to go however then the engine simply switched off out of Flip Six. I needed to pull over immediately as a result of it was caught in gear and so I could not roll to a protected place. It could have been good to get some factors however it wasn’t meant to be at this time.”
Andreas Seidl, Workforce Principal: “Combined emotions at this time in Monza. The optimistic facet is that the tempo we had this weekend and all through the race was very encouraging, notably given heat climate and a low-downforce configuration have not favoured us previously. Alternatively, a retirement for Daniel is disappointing, costing us helpful factors within the Constructors’ Championship after he had a really sturdy weekend, each yesterday in qualifying and likewise at this time within the race. P7 for Lando, nonetheless, confirms us because the fourth-fastest crew this weekend.
“That comes from laborious work from your entire crew, right here and again at residence, along with our colleagues at Mercedes HPP. A break now of two weekends earlier than we head to Singapore. Whereas work on subsequent 12 months’s automotive continues at tempo, in parallel we’ll use this time to analyse all the info we have collected over the triple-header and see how we will take additional steps with the automotive as we head into the ultimate six races of the season. We go once more.”
