“We haven’t had many, if any, upgrades this season so far, so we’ve been on the back foot. We’re pushing hard at the factory, everyone’s working really hard… Of course, there’s a bit of a break right now, but time will tell.
“If we can get our first proper upgrade on the car when we come back, I think we can fight for points a bit more regularly. But for now, I think P13, P12 was all we could have done today.”
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Asked to look back on the first half of the season as a whole, he continued: “Disappointing. I think we’ve been on the back foot from the very beginning. We were late with our car and we’ve been paying the price the whole season so far. That’s about it.
“We’re digging deep, I think we’ve got some good things in the future. At the same time, we’ve got some areas we need to work on. We’ll use this break to look and really focus on the development not just for this year but especially for next year.”
