Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Dutch GP race -posiitive weekend

HEINEKEN DUTCH GRAND PRIX
Circuit Zandvoort
2-4 September 2022
Sunday, September 4th 2022

“Without the Safety Car, we could have been fighting for seventh”

In Numbers

Lance Stroll
•    Grid       P10
•    Result    P10
•    Change    N/A
•    Fastest Lap   1.15.043 [Lap 65]
•    Strategy     3 Stops [Lap 16, 38, 56]
o    Start: New Soft [16 Laps]   
o    Used Medium [22 Laps]
o    Used Hard [18 Laps]
o    Used Soft [16 Laps]

Sebastian Vettel
•    Grid       P19
•    Result    P14
•    Change    +5
•    Fastest Lap  1.14.862 [Lap 50]
•    Strategy       3 Stops [Lap 9, 35, 48]
o    Start: New Soft [9 Laps]
o    Used Medium [26 Laps]
o    Used Hard [13 Laps]
o    Used Soft [24 Laps]

Drivers’ Championship

Sebastian Vettel
•    Points  N/A
•    Championship  P12
•    Change  N/A

Lance Stroll
•    Points  +1
•    Championship  P18
•    Change  +1

Constructors’ Championship

Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One

Team

•Points    +1
Championship    P09
Change    N/A

Soundbites

Lance Stroll

“Overall, it has been a positive weekend in terms of performance, but we were a little bit unlucky today with how things played out and how that affected our strategy.

The timing of the Safety Car gave the Alpines and [Lando] Norris the advantage: without that we could have been fighting for seventh. Our pace was strong all weekend, I felt really confident in the car, and we were more competitive. That is really encouraging for the coming races.

It has been a great push by the team back at the factory to make our car quicker, so hopefully this is the start of a strong run through to the end of the season.”

Sebastian Vettel

“We did not have great race pace – but probably could have earned a better result if we had not started so far back. We stopped early to try and undercut the cars ahead. That strategy would have worked, but that first pitstop was really slow – I lost a lot of time to Zhou [Guanyu], Pierre [Gasly], Alex [Albon], Mick [Schumacher] and I was very close to Daniel [Ricciardo].

I enjoyed my battle with Mick – but this race was not a highlight for either of us. Then I got a five-second penalty for ignoring blue flags when I was being passed by Lewis [Hamilton], but it did not really make much difference to my race.

A tough day where making progress was always going to be difficult – but it is what it is.”

Mike Krack – Team Principal

“Lance drove very well to score a hard-earned point this afternoon, managing his tyres throughout a tricky Soft-Medium-Hard-Soft three-stop race. The timing of the Safety Car did not help Lance’s race, but a point is a point.

Sebastian moved up from his P19 grid slot to a P14 finish, and he was never likely to be able to make better progress than that on a circuit such as this one on which overtaking is difficult.

From here we go on to Monza, one of the great circuits, but before we leave Zandvoort I would like to pay tribute to the organisers, who managed the race weekend very well, and the Dutch fans, whose enthusiasm made for a fantastic carnival atmosphere.”

– Matt Bishop, photos Aston Martin

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