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Obviously, I've got more points than ever before, but, for sure, it
was not the best race of my life. We had a chance to get to the top
position at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Well, we tried our best, but it was
not enough. We finished second and I've got my first podium after a
couple of years.
The weather was good. Finally it was consistently warm. Our car
likes that and it felt really good after we had the proper set-up work
done on Friday better than in the previous race weekends.
The key factor was the tyre degeration. It's the same for everybody,
but everybody can approach it in their own way. We decided to gamble
the qualifying and went accordlingly through it. To save new tyres for
the race, we did only one lap in Q2. We knew it will be tight, and we
lost it. But still I had a encouraged feeling for Sunday.
After the race in China and after the qualifying in Bahrain, people
probably started thinking that we are idiots and cannot do anything
right. But we showed in the race why we did what we did. It was close
already in China and this time our strategy paid back very nicely for
us.
We were at our fastest speed while it counted. I managed to overtake
Romain and after that I've was hunting down Sebastian. It was close
getting past him, too, but I would have needed more than one chance to
make it. Now I chose the wrong side for braking, Sebastian survived and
after that, I pretty much knew, that was it.
Of course, I wanted to win. I would have been much happier myself
after the race. But, most of all, it was a great result for the team.
The team gained many places in the contsructors' championship, while
finally we got both our cars in the points and, most of all, in the
podium as well.
Only McLaren has had two cars in top 3 in the season like us. That
shows how tight and how close it is with so many top teams. You have to
get everything exactly right to be at the top. Small mistakes or a
measured risk like we had and you are out from Q3 and most likely out
of podium, too.
Now the team is back up where we belong. The Bahrain result was
good, but it's not good enough for us. We will push even harder to get
good results on regular basis. I wouldn't count on winning, but you
never know how it goes in motor racing.
Next step is testing in Mugello. For Barcelona we have again some
new parts and also some good data from the winter testing. Let's wait
and see how it goes there in two weeks time.
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