📻 | Toto: “Lewis, I apologize for what you had to drive, I know this is unthinkable and not the result we deserve. We are going to change places, but it was a terrible race.”
📻 | Lewis: “Don't worry, Toto. We will keep working hard”
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Verstappen: “It's always tough to achieve something like that but already from the start of the weekend we were on it thinking it would be a strong weekend. As a team we did everything well. This 1-2 is well deserved.”
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Gasly: “Today is going to be a great day after a difficult one yesterday. We are not where we should be but in these conditions anything can happen and we hope to go forward.”
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Vettel: “I managed to defend strongly in the first few laps, which created a train of cars behind me. Mick had the advantage of being on the Medium tyres and, once he got past, I lost a few positions quite quickly. I just did not have the pace to hold on.”
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Sebastian Vettel: “It was a shame that we were not able to hold onto a top 10 position, but I think the Safety Car did not help us and we struggled with some graining on the Soft tyres late on.”
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Alonso: “We knew that it was going to be tough to keep Perez and Sainz behind with the pace they have, so we thought seventh was possibly a realistic position today. But, with the tyre graining, it was made harder to achieve this.”
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Fernando Alonso: “We weren’t fast enough today, so it was a disappointing Sprint Qualifying for us. There was a lot of tyre degradation and our start was far from ideal, so we need to look into that tonight.”
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Max: “Tomorrow it might be a bit different but today it worked out for us to be on this compound. Very happy to have a clean sprint race at the end.”
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Verstappen: “Start was very bad. I don't know exactly what happened or why it was so bad. Too much wheel spin but after that we had to stay calm and it looked like Charles was having more pace but then he started to run out of tyres and we could close the gap.”
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Leclerc: “The pace was good and then we had started to have graining on the front left and lost it towards the end. We will come back stronger tomorrow.”
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Leclerc: “It's still a front row start. We struggled with the tyres at the end, so we need to analyse that for tomorrow. The main race is tomorrow.”
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The exhaust problem on Bottas car in quali caused some heat damage to the gearbox, the wiring loom and the floor. Fitting a new wiring loom in a chassis is very complicated. So Alfa decided to change the chassis (without breaking any seals). [@tgruener] #F1#IMOLAGP