Parc Ferme Interviews – Carried out by Felipe Massa
Q: Carlos, you had an incredible race, particularly on the finish, actually good tempo to get the chance to be on the rostrum.
Carlos Sainz: Yeah, I believe total it was a very good race. We did have some issues there initially, with the brakes on hearth. We needed to cease early, which meant we needed to decide to a three-stop that perhaps at the moment wasn’t the quickest given the degradation. However from there I pushed flat out to attempt to catch again as much as Checo. We had a very good run on Checo on the finish. Good podium after beginning P7. Yeah, I believe we may be proud of that. It is a disgrace that Merc had been so fast, however congratulations to George.
Q: OK. And the struggle for the second place within the Constructors’? How do you assume for the final race? How is it going to be?
CS: We’re clearly on a little bit of a defence mode, as a result of Merc had been untouchable at the moment. They had been simply merely the quickest automotive, faster than the Crimson Bull, faster than us. I believe it has been just a few weekends like this, like that. So in Abu Dhabi, we have to count on them to win. And we have to both do injury limitation or go for the win ourselves additionally.
Q: Lewis, are you’re feeling somewhat bit Brazilian now? Wonderful race, driver of the day, so congratulations in your actually, actually good job. You had somewhat little bit of hassle at the start? So how do you assume it was that contact with Max and likewise, afterwards, an incredible race you probably did.
Lewis Hamilton: Yeah, nicely, firstly, I’ve received to say large congratulations to George. What an incredible drive he did at the moment. He did superb qualifying yesterday. So he actually deserves it. To my staff, so happy with everybody again on the manufacturing unit and right here. That is an unimaginable outcome. We have labored so laborious via this yr to get a win and so that is massively deserved for everyone, so an enormous, large thanks. What can I say, you know the way it’s with Max, so…
Q: I believe you need to say one thing for everybody [here. Every overtake you are doing the whole grandstands were supporting you massively so…
LH: Muito Obrigado. A big, big thank you to everyone in here in Brazil. I’ve really had one of the best weeks of my life here, just with how everyone’s accepted me here and the warm welcome I’ve had, so excited to come back here again and hopefully some holidays in the future.
Q: George, unbelievable! I mean, I can’t imagine you’re feeling, you are even crying. I understand how is the feeling of the first victory. Really congratulations. Yesterday I told you it was the first of many and today you did an amazing job. So just now how you feel? And the pace of your car, the perfect job you did in the race, so really, really congratulations.
George Russell: What an amazing feeling. Just a huge thank you to the whole team for making this possible. It’s been an emotional roller coaster this season. This race was a really tough race. I felt in control. Lewis was super fast and then when I saw the Safety Car, I thought, Jesus, this is going to be a really difficult end. He put me under so much pressure but so happy to come away with the victory.
Q: And how is the feeling? Remember all your career, everything you passed through, you know, starting from the karting, all of the championships that you fight and you arrive here in an amazing season you are doing, really an amazing season, with a team that didn’t start so well. And now you guys show the pace to win. And I think that’s really important and especially that the first victory is yours.
GR: I’m speechless, you know, on the in-lap all of these memories sort of come flooding back, you know, starting off with my mum and dad in go-karting and going through and, you know, all the support I’ve had from the rest of my family, my girlfriend, my trainer, my manager. I mean obviously, you know the likes of Gwen [Lagrue, Mercedes Driver Development Advisor] who gave me the chance to get on the programme with Mercedes, and James Vowles and Toto, you recognize, the listing is limitless. I am unable to thank them sufficient and, yeah, tremendous proud.
Press Convention
Q: As you may see, our winner just isn’t but with us. So we will begin with our second and third place finishers. Lewis Hamilton and Carlos Sainz, a really heat welcome to you guys. Lewis, let’s begin with you. What a day for Mercedes, a one-two for the staff, and a wonderful comeback drive by you as nicely. Simply sum it up for us.
LH: It was an unimaginable day, an unimaginable weekend, and week truly, simply total. So many superb experiences, from Monday onwards. And that is actually a dream for all of the staff. I believe everybody actually deserves this superb outcome. Everybody has labored so laborious via the yr. And we have been via such a tough sort of part. However we by no means gave up hope that we might get again to profitable methods. And so, I am actually proud to be part of this staff and to get a one-two, regardless of the challenges via the yr, and regardless of the challenges at the moment.
Q: Lewis, you speak concerning the challenges, and you have been concerned in lots of one-twos in your profession, however due to all the pieces that is occurred already this yr, does that make this all of the sweeter?
LH: Undoubtedly, undoubtedly. I believe each one-two is an incredible feeling. I undoubtedly have, prior to now, skilled us having a one-two and I believe as a result of at levels it was extra common it nearly loses that specialness, you recognize, so to have had this drought and this time period and to lastly get again there, I believe it is a great achievement for everyone.
Q: Your rivals all assume that Mercedes had the quickest automotive right here in what areas was it particularly sturdy?
LH: I actually do not know, if I am sincere. It is a unusual feeling, as a result of we undoubtedly have taken steps forwards. Nevertheless it’s nearly just like the others sort of fell off somewhat bit this weekend, perhaps? I do not know. However the automotive had been actually nice to drive all weekend – very constant, very clean, no main points. And, yeah, we did not convey any upgrades to the final race or this one. So I believe we’re simply slowly beginning to perceive the automotive increasingly and get it working in a sweeter spot.
Q: Your race was compromised, I believe we are able to say, by the collision with Max Verstappen after the primary restart. How do you see what occurred?
LH: I do not actually have a lot of an opinion about it, to be sincere. For me, all I believed in that second was that I believed the automotive must retire. As a result of I felt one thing, the rear wasn’t feeling the identical after that. And for me, it was like, I used to be going to lose the staff the one-two. And so like, all I might consider. So I used to be driving over throughout the grass, again onto the observe and all I might consider was how can I get again to giving the staff that unimaginable outcome. So only for me, it is sort of, once more, not the way you fall, it is the way you get again up. And I am happy with the job we have all finished and large congratulations to George.
Q: How essential is it for the staff to be hitting this run of kind as we head into the winter break?
LH: It’s a very powerful factor for us to have this outcome. This can be a huge enhance to the entire staff’s morale. Going into the winter, the staff is aware of that we’re heading in the right direction. And we’re nonetheless the perfect staff. We’ll get again to having this extra constant I believe subsequent yr and I am excited for that battle.
Q: Very nicely finished. Thanks, Lewis. And our race winner, George Russell, is becoming a member of us now. George, large congratulations. You’ve got little question dreamt of this second. Inform us concerning the actuality.
GR: Yeah, simply so many feelings, I believe I’ve dreamt of this second, for certain, many, many instances. And also you by no means actually know the way it may pan out and I believe the race was nicely managed, all the pieces was below management. I knew how fast Lewis was and when that Security Automotive got here out, I believed ‘God that is going to be very, very difficult now’. However I put collectively a very sturdy string of laps. Little or no errors and you recognize the strain Lewis put me below was immense. However I am so happy with the entire staff. The progress we have made for the reason that begin of the yr is simply unbelievable. And what a lift it may give us going into subsequent season.
Q: Now, after your efficiency within the Dash yesterday, simply inform us the way you had been feeling coming into this race? Have been you calm? Have been you nervous? Did this one someway really feel completely different?
GR: I used to be fairly relaxed, to be sincere. I believe it is type of, like, a mentality. And in case you have the mentality that in the event you simply do all the pieces proper, you recognize, make a clear begin, do your factor, get into the groove, then you may win this race. And I knew having Lewis alongside me and Max in my mirrors, it was not going to be a simple race. However we believed and we had been having a variety of conversations this morning, as a staff, strategically, how we had been going to attempt to sort out getting this victory for the staff. And to return away with a one-two is simply unreal.
Q: You nailed the massive moments, the beginning and the restarts. Simply how difficult was it to get them proper?
GR: Yeah, undoubtedly difficult, for certain. However you simply need to undergo the method and deal with it as if it is every other. There was a type of a second within the race the place I used to be trying rather a lot at my mirrors, you recognize, seeing Lewis there, however I type of realised I simply have to look ahead now. And the one method I’ll win this race, is by trying forward, driving as quick as I can, making no errors. And you recognize, my engineer was on the radio, giving me the gaps, in all probability 4 instances a lap. And it was all the time between 1.1 and 1.3, 1.1, 1.4, 1.1. I simply wished that little further half a second buffer. It was solely once I got here into Sector 3 on the final lap that I knew we might received it.
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