F1Weekly Podcast # 897

THE HOST IS SINGING THE MARSEILLAISE NASIR LOVES FERNANDO EL MACHISMO AND MAX IS REALIZING HE NEEDS LADY LUCK TO COME BACK!…LET’S HEAR FROM MAX

MAX VERSTAPPEN: “It was all out of our hands in the race and I can’t believe I got taken out for the second week running. The mechanics did what they could to get me back in the race but I was carrying a lot of damage on the car after the incident and it was super difficult to drive with, there was a lot of oversteer and understeer from the downforce loss.

Of course it’s really disappointing to only score one point but on the other hand I was incredibly lucky to continue after the crash so it was a surprise to score a point at all which is still important. We have the summer break now but we keep pushing, we will never give up and we will focus on ourselves.

We’ve had two very unlucky races but nothing is lost, it’s still a very long season. Congratulations to Esteban too, you can see that he is super happy and I’m sure many more race wins will follow.”

FERNANDO: “Honestly, I think Lewis was making small mistakes in the last two corners – that’s my honest opinion,” said Alonso. “Because he had so much pace that you cannot take eight laps to pass with that pace advantage. And in fact, after changing a few lines, he got past Carlos [Sainz, for P3] immediately one lap later, so it was not difficult to pass in my opinion, but he took four or five laps to figure it out.

“I didn’t know that that was enough to hold the victory for Esteban,” added Alonso, “but anyway, it was 10 laps to the end, we tried to hold fourth position but eventually it was not possible. Lewis had an amazing pace in the last couple of laps.

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