🇬🇧 George Russell:
“First of all, congratulations to Kimi. It’s an incredible result for him. I was looking at the screens in the early laps and seeing him come through the field, so it was clear pretty quickly that he was going to be in the fight for the win. My race was pretty smooth until the tyres started to go off towards the end, as we effectively had to do the whole race on one set of Hard tyres. Still, I’m happy to accept this result. It was a much more positive weekend than the races before the summer break. Of course, I wanted to win. During the VSC, I thought we would both stay out and was surprised when Kimi pitted. But at that point, the strategy was a gamble for everyone, and splitting the cars made sense. Either way, Kimi had great pace today.”
🇳🇱 Max Verstappen:
“There was plenty of fighting out there and I had to attack regularly, including a few overtakes around the outside. I was struggling with energy deployment through Turns 2 to 4, and our top speed wasn’t our strongest point today either. I tried to stay with the leaders for as long as I could, but the others simply had more pace. I had to take some risks and make some aggressive moves, and at one point I even missed the apex. After that, I just focused on keeping my rhythm. Still, I’m happy to finish third and be back on the podium.”
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