2024 Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix Highlights

Visa Cash App RB’s Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson fought hard through the stop-start 2024 Formula 1 Qatar Grand Prix but struggled for a serious race pace and missed out on the points. Tsunoda finished the race in 13th place, with Lawson just 1.5s behind in 14th.

Liam Lawson

We weren’t quick enough to be fighting with the teams we needed to be today. I had a spin on the first safety car restart when I tried to overtake Bottas. I didn’t have enough temperature in the tyres, lost the car, and tried hard not to make contact. After this, we caught the pack up, and our pace wasn’t alarming, but we were out of position. We also experienced balance issues towards the end of the race. It was a tough race. We also struggled here last year. We’ve made big steps this season, but more must be taken. Ultimately, we lost many points to our competitors, which we will fight hard for in Abu Dhabi.

Yuki Tsunoda

Today, we had a tough race. We had a good start, and I knew it was the best opportunity for us to gain some positions, but after that, we simply started to have a lack of pace and lost positions. We will work together as a team to review the data and get some learning for the future to understand what didn’t work this weekend. Abu Dhabi is next week. Now, we all need to reset, and we’ll be going there giving our best for the last race weekend of the season.

TIM GOSS – Chief Technical OFFICER

A disappointing day for us today. Both drivers performed well at the start and put us in a strong position to deliver a points finish. But just as in the Sprint, it soon became apparent that we were well short of our usual race pace at this circuit and struggled to defend our place in the points. Our engineers and strategy team did their best to recover the situation, even trying the Option tyre compound for the final part of the race. We have plenty of data to work through, and the technical team won’t rest until we understand why we struggled today. We will put every effort into delivering a much better race car for the drivers to compete with in Abu Dhabi.

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