Sunday: A disappointing race for Toro Rosso

Jean- Eric Vergne – 14th: « My start wasn’t very good and to compensate for that, we went from a two-stop strategy to a three-stop strategy and I think it could have paid off to get into the points. However, I realized that I had a lot of trouble keeping the car on the track and my tires were completely worn out by the end, and the car was overheating. It’s always a long and tough race, and it felt particularly long for me because I had no one to fight against at the end of the race, except to do everything to keep the car away from obstacles. I always try to see the positive side, and the updates we brought here seem to work, and we learned a lot about the car. That’s why I believe we can still have a strong end to the season, starting from Korea, where I expect the car to perform very well. »

Daniel Ricciardo – Retirement: « The accident was my mistake, trying to make up for lost time. At the start, my car seemed to sit there without moving off the line. It was very frustrating to lose so many places immediately, and I think I went from ninth on the grid to fourteenth. From there, I just tried to do the best I could. In the second stint, my engineer told me on the radio: « The pace is good, keep pushing. » I knew that with the pace we had, we weren’t too bad, and maybe at the end, I wanted to do too much and made this mistake. It’s a tricky corner, I braked too sharply, locked a wheel, and went into the wall. It’s not a mistake I’m accustomed to making, I will learn from this experience. »