In addition to two 5s time penalties, Sergio Perez received 4 penalty points for his various misdemeanours during today's Grand Prix.
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This week we've reached an important milestone in our journey at McLaren. For the first time this season, we finished with both cars on the podium.
Although we come back from Suzuka with no points: we had reasonable race pace today, compared to our direct competitors.
Obviously, we can't be happy with a fourth and a sixth place but, having gained some ground on our closest rivals, we will stay focussed and prepare to give our very best at the upcoming races.
It's been a positive effort from the team today with both cars in the points and it was good to put behind a slightly out-of-position Qualifying.
This afternoon, everything went as we had expected and all three available compounds were used, thus creating a situation where we saw several different strategies between the teams and drivers.
Our pace on the hard compound at the end was competitive, but by this stage, we had already lost out to the two Alpines, ending up with both cars just outside the points.
We realised early on that we were not going to be able to challenge those further ahead for the podium.
Realistically, with the performance we had this weekend, we achieved the maximum possible result.
It was a tough race, but the positive is the team did the best they could with what we've got.
It is very frustrating not to finish the race with either car, but we can now get back to Grove, regroup and get ready to tackle the Lusail International Circuit in Qatar.
Phenomenal Red Bull powers Max Verstappen to his 13th win of the season, as McLaren pair complete the podium on a day the Austrian team secures its sixth constructors' title.