I enjoyed the race quite a lot overall, especially at the beginning with Lando and I pushing each other quite hard. We were leading by turn 1 after starting P2, and were able to maximise and get the tyres in the right window. The car felt much better and I enjoyed it a lot out there today. It was nice to win in the dry as well, it has been quite a few races since we’ve achieved that. It was definitely not a boring race and there was a lot to manage with the restarts and safety cars throughout, but we learned from that and were able to stay in front. I am very proud to win here in Qatar, and proud of the Team for our performances this weekend, it is a great track and one of my favourites on the calendar. We have to make sure we nail our setup in Abu Dhabi and to hopefully finish the season with another great race.

Today we had a tough race. We had a good start and I knew it was the best opportunity for us to gain some positions, but after that, we simply started to have a lack of pace and we lost positions. We will work together as a team to review the data and get some learning for the future to understand what didn’t work this weekend. Abu Dhabi is next week. Now we all need to reset and we’ll be going there giving our best for the last race weekend of the season.

We weren’t quick enough to be fighting with the teams we need to be today. I had a spin on the first safety car restart when I tried to overtake Bottas. I didn’t have enough temperature in the tyres and lost the car and tried hard not to make contact. After this, we caught the pack up and our pace wasn’t bad, but we were out of position. We also experienced balance issues towards the end of the race. It was a tough race, we also struggled here last year. We’ve made big steps this season but there’s more to be taken. Ultimately, we lost a lot of points to our competitors, which we will fight hard for in Abu Dhabi.

Things were looking good at the time for me, I was sitting in P5 and we were in the mix for the podium. Then as I was warming up the tyre, getting ready for the restart, I had a massive over delivery as I was picking up the throttle out of turn 12. With cold tyres I couldn’t control it, it basically meant I lost the car and then lost drive from that point onwards. It is quite disappointing to end up like this. There were some positive signs for me this weekend with performance and I think we have learnt a lot from the car this weekend and found good direction. I think the season hasn’t been great for me, there has been a lot of up and downs and we have a few things to review there. We are all in this together as a Team and we are trying to get our season back on track, hopefully Abu Dhabi can do that and we can have a strong weekend.