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“And, overall, I have to say that even when we had clean air, we did not have a great pace because we could not generate temperature for the tyres. Even in a normal race, I’m not sure that podium was within reach today. […]”

lando: “it obviously was not a bad decision for lap 1, it worked out in a way. at the same time it was the wrong decision. so we have to accept that.. but i also pushed for it myself quite a bit. so we take it on the chin” “but we had some problems and we had a failure in the end which put us out. so yeah, put us out of misery in a way” 🙃🙃

mclaren rewarded randy with a podium after that strategy disaster in hungary 2024 so i don’t blame him for thinking bottling is the way to go

🗣️: "overall, looking at the weekend generally, do you feel there's a gap?" lando: "positive. it's hard to just look at positives now, but that was positive. the car was performing well. it still felt like a horrible car to drive at times. today, mainly in these cold conditions, but i'm sure it's probably similar for everyone. we still have to take the positives and there's plenty of them. we were in a fight, we were closest to the mercedes, we were the one giving them a good battle. no one else could. so we have to take those good things away with us, learn what we can improve for next time and there's plenty of those things. i'm still excited for the future."