The sixth place of Lance Stroll and the tenth of Sebastian Vettel on the Losail track they gave Aston Martin the team’s third best weekend of the season in terms of points, after the high points at the beginning of the year in Monte-Carlo and Baku. The race held in the desert of Qatar could have gone even better especially for the four-time German world champion, who thwarted yesterday’s good qualifying with a bad start, made even more complicated by the problems encountered by Valtteri Bottas’ Mercedes. in front of him.
“Valtteri had a bad start and I couldn’t go anywhere – commented Vettel, speaking with the Motorsport-Magazin.com website – the cars in front of me could pass him but I was the first of that line to brake, I lost momentum and tried to catch up on the outside. But I got a bit wrong because of the sand and went out. Then almost all the cars passed ”. Forced at the back of the group, however, Vettel was able to get back on top of the group. “The pace was strong. It was a shame that we lost the potential to score more points at the start. Somehow we went from 18th to 10th, which is a decent comeback. We fought against the AlphaTauri and passed a McLaren. It was a strong race ”.
Less spectacular but more concrete and consistent the race of Lance Stroll, splendid sixth under the checkered flag. This from Qatar was the best result of the season for the Canadian. “The car was doing very well today – commented the Montreal native – I am very happy with our performance. I made up a couple of positions on the first lap and during the first stint it was clear that we had the pace to do well. I overtook Tsunoda in the mediums and then, after catching up with the riders in front, I undercut Sainz to climb to sixth after the stop for the hard tires. Overall, everything worked out perfectly for us today. Scoring eight points at the end of this hat-trick is a very satisfying reward for all our hard work “.
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