Valtteri Bottas (No. 77) – 5th (after the disqualification of Ricciardo)<\/p>\n
After a disappointing qualification in the rain, the young Williams driver is very satisfied with the car’s performance on the dry track: \u00ab The car was really very performant today, which is encouraging for the rest of the season. \u00bb Unfortunately, after a few laps and while attacking Fernando Alonso, Valtteri Bottas made a mistake and his right rear wheel touched the wall. With a cracked rim, the tire came off, forcing the Finn to return to the pits at a slow pace before the safety car was deployed.<\/p>\n
\u00ab I am a bit disappointed in myself because I attacked a little too much and hit the wall, which caused a puncture \u00bb. But far from letting it get him down, the Williams driver came back stronger: \u00ab I spent the rest of the race trying to make up for that mistake and managed some good overtakes, but I need to learn from this and make sure it doesn’t happen again \u00bb. And despite this good result, the driver knows he should have done better: \u00ab We should have finished higher today given the pace we had, and I am looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in Malaysia \u00bb.<\/p>\n
Felipe Massa (No. 19) \u2013 Retirement (collision)<\/b><\/p>\n
After securing ninth place during the qualifiers, the Brazilian could aim for at least some points. But the faulty brakes on Kamui Kobayashi’s Caterham dictated otherwise: \u00ab I am obviously very disappointed given that I had the car to fight for the podium today, but that incident at the first corner totally ruined my race \u00bb.<\/p>\n
Despite this, Felipe Massa wants to highlight the good sides seen this weekend: \u00ab It’s a shame, because there were a lot of good things the team could have obtained this weekend in terms of pace and reliability, so I’m just thinking about the next race and getting a solid result there. \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Despite a solid 5th place achieved by Valtteri Bottas, the Williams team has reason to harbor regrets today. An error by the Finn caused a puncture on his car and forced him to make an early stop, while Felipe Massa couldn’t get past the first corner despite a strong pace demonstrated by his teammate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":39973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[92,393,958],"class_list":["post-15969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-bilan","tag-franck-williams","tag-melbourne"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n