“It was a tough race. The start felt okay; the medium runners in front of me looked like they were struggling, and we were able to catch them. I was on the hard tyre and tried to use it where I could by going long and finding the pace,” he said afterwards.
“After a few laps, we picked up a lot of graining, which got worse and worse over 10 laps, causing us to be a few seconds off the pace. The team could see some other cars were clearing the graining, however it definitely took us a lot longer. When we did, we were able to come back and have a bit of pace again, but we had lost a lot of ground.
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“I’ve never experienced graining like that, the swing of lap time was up to four seconds. We need to understand why we had more graining for longer.”
Th good news for RB is that they have an immediate opportunity to put the difficult race behind them, with Singapore coming up at the weekend. And their main rivals in the constructors’, Haas, only manged to score one point – reducing the gap between the two teams to five points with seven races remaining.
