Q:
You seemed to be less competitive in that first stint than the other two.
KR:
Yeah, I think our car is maybe not exactly suited to this circuit, so once the circuit picked up some more grip I think we were expecting to have a better car and it went that way. So we definitely we had plenty of speed but we couldn’t use it.
Q:
Lap 13, you lost 1.5s, do you remember what happened?
KR:
Yeah, I remember. I ran wide in two corners, in the last sector, so I lost some time.
Q:
But otherwise pleased with second?
KR:
It’s better than where we started but for sure what I needed to do was score more points than the three guys ahead of me and I couldn’t, I could only score more points than two guys and not more than Lewis, so in that way it didn’t help me, it only hurt me more. But we did everything we could. Hopefully it should be better at the next races when we get to more normal circuits.
Q:
Nick, how hard was Fernando pushing in those last stages?
NH:
Well, he was pushing quite hard. Obviously he had better pace than I had, but we all know that it’s difficult to overtake here in Hungary. When I came out of my last stop, he was a few seconds behind, so I decided to take it easy on option tyres, not to kill them, in order to keep them alive and keep Fernando behind. He pushed pretty hard for a couple of laps, then backed off and then tried again for the last one or two laps but I managed to stay head.
Q:
So pretty pleased with third place.
NH:
Yeah, definitely. It was the maximum we could have today. Of course I would have liked to stay in front of Kimi at the start but we were on the dirty side and there would have been no chance to keep him behind anyway.
Q:
Interesting, the way you lined up on the grid…
