Pierre Gasly
“If someone had told me on Friday that we would finish in P7 in the race, then I definitely would have signed up for that! I am very pleased with today’s race where we pretty much did everything right and put ourselves in contention to score points after a difficult starting position. In the end we benefitted from the virtual safety car to switch tyres to the Hards and then, with some retirements in the latter stages, gained a few more positions. We’re best of the rest again, so another good result for the team and more important points for the Championship. From where we were yesterday [Saturday], this is a big improvement, even if we’re still having some issues which we are working hard to understand. It rounds off a really up and down week for all of us, highs and lows, and I am just glad it finished with another positive result. We know the gap is still too big to those in front, which we must keep pushing to close down. I am happy, and now it’s time for a mini break before focus switches to Austria in two weeks’ time.”
Stats: Started P14 on New Mediums, finished P7. Pit-Stops on Lap 14 for New Hards and Lap 40 for New Hards. Fastest Lap: 1min 21.960secs.
Franco Colapinto
“It was a much better day today [Sunday] and a great reward for the whole team to score points with both cars, which is something we probably didn’t expect earlier in the weekend based on the relative performance. The car felt much better in race conditions and the pace was there to fight those in front of us. It was a tough race with the tyres and there was more degradation than at previous events, but as a team we made the right calls and had smooth pit-stops, so we ended up in a good spot in the end. It was good teamwork all around both on and off the track and some good points to bring back to Enstone.
Stats: Started P13 on New Softs, finish P10*. Pit-Stops on Lap 12 for New Hards and Lap 34 for New Hards. Fastest Lap: 1min 22.449secs. (*Finished P8 but had a 10-second post-race penalty applied to his race time .)