Singapore GP: Williams Martini Race Review
By Williams Martini Racing
September 17 2018
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Race Notes • Lance Stroll finished 14th and Sergey Sirotkin 19th in the Singapore Grand Prix • Sergey started on the ultrasoft Pirelli tyre in P19, with Lance P20 on the soft Pirelli tyre • The Safety Car was immediately deployed on the first lap • Sergey picked up debris so made an early stop, switching to the soft tyre on lap 3 as the safety car ended • Both drivers made a clean restart, Lance climbed to P14, with Sergey behind in P15 • Lance pitted on lap 40 for the ultrasoft tyre whilst Sergey pitted again on lap 45 |
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Sergey Sirotkin: "It was a fight. I fought all my way through, I was fighting and squeezing every single moment. We were in a good position at the beginning of the race, and up to the point of contact with the Force India car. This caused a lot of damage to my car and after that it was more about survival. It’s a difficult track to overtake, so I still fought as hard as I could to protect the car and keep my position, but lap after lap, it was becoming more difficult and the car was falling apart. I gave everything in terms of myself and with the car to bring the best performance home." |
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Lance Stroll: "I will have to watch the race, as I don't really know what happened around me, but I think there was quite a bit of chaos, so probably I benefited from that. I am really happy with the end result as 14th was a great result for the pace we had yesterday, and throughout the weekend. It wasn't easy - I would say more mentally than physically. I felt pretty good in the car as physically I had prepared. Mentally I am on the edge with no room for error. It wasn't easy as every millimetre counts round here and one millimetre too much is contact with the wall. I was trying to get everything out of the car on every lap, as for sure 61 laps round a track like this are very challenging. I pulled it off, so I am happy." |
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Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical
Officer: "It was a normal long race in Singapore and full of events. Sergey picked up a bit of wheel rim from Ocon’s accident which meant we had to take an early stop. We put the soft tyre on, planning to go to the end. Sergey did a fantastic job, managing the tyre and his pace, keeping traffic behind him under a lot of pressure. He ultimately got caught up in an impact with Perez, and that ruined his race otherwise he could have been looking at quite a good finishing position. On Lance’s side, we took advantage of the traffic and the different queues on the circuit to optimise his pitstop which gave him a better track position than we could have hoped for at the start. He was able to come in 15th on the road and inherited 14th due to a time penalty for Grosjean, which we were chasing until the end. So real congratulations to the team, another two cars home in a very tough race, and especially to the drivers; they were driving at the maximum for nearly two hours and got the best they could from the car." |
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Track: Marina Bay Street Circuit,
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Weather: Warm and dry | |||
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DRIVER |
TEAM |
Time (Fastest Lap) |
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L Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:51:11.611 (1:42.913) |
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| 2 | M Verstappen | Red Bull | + 8.961 (1:43.345) | 2 |
| 3 | S Vettel | Ferrari | + 39.945 (1:44.669) | 3 |
| 14 | L STROLL | Williams Martini Racing | +1 LAP (1:46.033) | 20 |
| 19 | S SIROTKIN | Williams Martini Racing | + 2 LAPS (1:45.902) | 19 |
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