It's been a tough Sunday for us here in Spa. The result does not reflect the effort this weekend.
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The team did a good job, given the circumstances: unfortunately, that was not enough for a point today.
Taking a sweet sixteen points after starting from third and sixteenth on the grid is a very good effort and certainly deserved.
We go away from here a little bit beaten up, but we are ready to come back again next weekend.
We asked a lot of Alex in the final stint and he was under a lot of pressure from the cars behind for whole of that stint. He drove very well and played his hand without fault to deliver another hard-earned point.
After qualifying we said that our aim would be to score points with both cars in today's race, and we very nearly achieved just that.
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