It wasn’t the most exciting race for me today. At the end we stayed out waiting as I had a huge gap behind me, so was free to do what we wanted with our final pit stop. We had nothing to lose; the tyres were quite old and we couldn’t push so much but we had a big gap behind.  We just kept at it to see if we got lucky with the safety car or a red flag. We did everything right and there wasn’t much more we could have done to change the result. Overall, the two stop format didn’t change much for me, it is a lottery about what is going to happen in the race as it is impossible to overtake here. You don’t push the car to the limit as you can’t pass the car, so we didn’t learn too much from the car today. It was not the most exciting race and I felt pretty neutral. This is not our track, it’s as simple as that and it is just not made for our car. In Barcelona we should be able to race more, so we will see what happens in the final race of the triple header.

It has been a frustrating weekend for me overall but there was nothing I could do much differently today, it’s down to me to be qualifying better. For sure I didn’t help myself yesterday and I didn’t help my team. If you qualify that far behind, you can’t expect much to happen in your race here and you have created that situation. Not much happened in my race apart from Pierre crashing into me. I was stuck in a lot of traffic and it felt like the longest race ever. Monaco is not fun when you are just sitting or driving by yourself, you can’t create your rhythm when you are stuck behind people. I don’t feel like Monaco was too affected by the limitations to my car from Imola, the pace was alright and it felt good in FP3 and in qualifying during Q1, I just wasn’t able to put it together overall. Hopefully next weekend I can put it all together and I need to do better overall.

It was a perfect Sunday for us. I’m really happy, and honestly, there was nothing more I could have done today in the race, so I consider it kind of a small victory. We had a plan and we executed it perfectly. I’m really proud of what we achieved today as a team, with Liam also bringing home a P8 and helping me out there. It was a big team effort, and a double-points finish is a nice reward for all of us. I found it quite interesting having to do two stops; there was much more to think about before the race, and we made it work today with our strategy. Since last week in Imola, we picked up some pace and made a step forward, something that we were able to carry on to Monaco. I’m confident and I’m looking forward to going back racing in Barcelona in a few days. 

It was a great result for the team, and it’s always nice to come away with points, which isn’t the easiest around Monaco. Having both cars finish in the points was exactly what we needed. Everything came together nicely this weekend, and we executed the race perfectly. The strategy made sense for us today, with both cars qualifying well and showing strong pace throughout the weekend. The two-stop format didn’t make a huge difference for us, it can create more opportunities but today’s race played out fairly straight forwardly. The pace has been there for a few races now, so it was good to show it this weekend. Looking ahead to Barcelona, we’ll aim to keep the momentum going. It’s a very different kind of track, and we will need to get on top of the regulation changes, we will need to adapt as quickly as possible.