Verstappen surprised with fourth

Max Verstappen had not really had the best of weekends up until Sunday, he was outpaced by his team mate Carlos Sainz who got his car into the top 10 for qualifying.

Despite being in incident during the race, the most notable hitting Valtteri Bottas giving him a puncture and Verstappen damaging his front wing, he gained from the misfortune from others. That included both Mercedes drivers, Williams and retirements from his team mate and Kimi Raikkonen.

“Unbelievable, a P4! What a great result, I have no words!” said Verstappen after the race. “I didn’t expect that at all after a bit of a bad start.

“However I managed to stay out of trouble and during my second stint everything was going well, I felt comfortable in the car and the guys behind me were not catching me up.

“When the race restarted after the Safety Car period there was a lot going on, with cars crashing in front of me… I also damaged my front-wing a bit and was given a drive-through penalty.

“So with a few laps to go I was asking my engineer in what position we were in, and when he said P4 I just couldn’t believe it! I’m very, very happy today. I’d like to thank the team, they are a great support and they deserve this result, I couldn’t have done it without them!”

Sainz retired in the second Toro Rosso, who was also on for a good result this weekend, “A very frustrating way to end the weekend, what a pity! We could’ve finished in a really good position today if we hadn’t retired…

“We were running in P5 and doing a very good race, but then I ran out of power towards the end of the race and that was the end of that. This is now the third race in a row where we were running in the points and we are not able to finish, so I’m not happy with that, but at least today Max was able to score some good points which is great for the team.

“It’s unfortunate that due to some reliability troubles I couldn’t contribute to our points tally today, but I’m not concerned at all about my performance because I know that I was also up there.

“It’s upsetting and difficult to accept another retirement right now, but fortunately we now have the summer break to analyse what has happened, to reset, and come back stronger.”Welcome to EditPad.org - your online plain text editor. Enter or paste your text here. To download and save it, click on the button below.

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