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Sirotkin happy with Williams performance despite lowly finish

14:55, 09 Oct 2018

byJake Williams-Smith

Sergey Sirotkin believes that Williams extracted the maximum they could out of the car at the Japanese Grand Prix despite finishing well down the order. The Russian admitted afterwards that the race had been a difficult one for Williams but that the team did all they could.

Speaking after the race, Sirotkin lamented the traffic he encountered during the pit stop windows and believes it cost him a better result.

“Today was a difficult day. We had to turn our strategy around to a two-stop, which in the end looked like it could be the quickest strategy to the flag.

“However, with traffic and other things happening on the track, we didn’t really get chance to fully exploit it, so it was a difficult race.”

The Williams driver added that despite finishing well down the order in 16th position and last but one (that one being his teammate Lance Stroll) the team had done a good job to extract as much as they did from the poorly performing FW41.

“We were able to avoid some of the trouble on the track and gain some positions here and there, so it’s been good in these terms, but at the end of the day we didn’t finish as high as we probably wanted.

“A very difficult race but I think we as a team did the absolute maximum from what we could today.

“With our situation, none of us could do any better, so with this in mind I’m very proud of all the boys' effort.”