Only Red Bull made a bold choice in terms of strategy, while the others preferred to play it safe.
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This weekend, our flying lap performance matched our expectations, but we have a clear step to make in terms of our race pace as we were not in the fight with Red Bull.
We've been reliable, we were quick enough to fight the Mercedes today, and this allowed us to score good points at a track we know isn't the best for the characteristics of our car.
We completed our objective of getting both cars home in the points and that's a good way to start the new season.
As we saw yesterday, the midfield is very tight and had we done a better job today, there was an opportunity to race for points.
A year after leading home teammate Sergio Perez by 11.987s, Max Verstappen doubles his advantage to 22.457s, as the Red Bull steamroller shows no sign of being slowed.
Today's post qualifying press conference with Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc and George Russell.
We have a good race car and hopefully we can show the same performance as we did today.
From what we have seen so far, it's possible that this year Red Bull will not have the kind of comfort zone they had last year.
We were aiming for the top of the midfield and that's exactly what we achieved with Yuki in P11, and Daniel extremely close to him.