What the teams said – Race day at the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix

Mercedes

Russell was pipped into Flip 1, dropping to 3rd. That’s the place he stayed, however the crew opted to pit him very early to attempt to make one thing occur. A gradual pit cease meant he got here out in visitors, which seemed prefer it was going to be pricey. However whereas he needed to pit a second time beneath the Security Automotive, he managed to climb again up the order due to the chaos unfolding round him, regardless of choosing up a time penalty for dropping too far behind the Security Automotive.

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As for Hamilton, he was pinged for a false begin – which was doubly pricey. By shifting then pausing, he made a gradual getaway and dropped three locations after which picked up a five-second time penalty. However worse was to return – he acquired a puncture from the particles, then acquired pinged for dashing within the pit lane. The seven-time world champion at one level requested to retire the automotive, however the crew inspired him to remain out and he did make it to the flag.

Lewis Hamilton, twelfth

“It was a fairly straight ahead session for us in qualifying, the automotive was feeling first rate and we have been in a position to repair the bouncing. The tyres and the grip of the monitor was feeling nice, this monitor is wonderful. My final lap in qualifying sadly wasn’t nice, I had the automotive snapping away from me which meant I misplaced time and couldn’t enhance larger than P6. I used to be giving it every thing and was typically feeling good however didn’t enhance after I crossed the road.

“Tomorrow I’m hoping for a superb race, this monitor is nice to drive so it ought to be an thrilling race. I’m hoping the automotive might be in a greater place tomorrow and we’ll be capable of make some enhancements. Sadly, right this moment within the dash all the prime Groups have been actually fast and it was onerous to overhaul however ’ll be giving it my all within the race tomorrow.”

George Russell, 4th

“At this time has been an excellent day, it’s good to be on this groove in the intervening time with 4 entrance row begins. My first Q3 lap was actually robust and I used to be happy with it however sadly I wasn’t in a position to enhance on my last lap. This was primarily because of the scrappy out lap I had with the close to miss with Max that meant I ended up within the gravel in order that didn’t assist prep smart forward of my last push lap. I’m nonetheless actually happy with P2, I’m taking all of the positives and I’m feeling nice within the automotive.

“It’s going to be thrilling tomorrow as the highest 4 groups are very shut. Beginning on the suitable aspect of the monitor does appear to have a slight drawback, which we noticed earlier on within the Dash Race for almost all beginning on this aspect of the monitor, which meant I couldn’t combat with Lando. I’m hoping tomorrow we’ll be capable of combat with Max and keep forward of these behind us, our race tempo this morning seemed good and the tyres appear resilient so I’m hoping we don’t find yourself in one other DRS practice and we will have some enjoyable. There’s quite a lot of potentialities to do one thing completely different, I’m trying ahead to it.”

Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport

“General, we’re pleased with the outcomes we have now seen right this moment as a Staff. The automotive appears to operate nicely in these circumstances as we will run the automotive low and stiff on a easy monitor which finally fits the traits of our automotive and George appears to love the best way it drives. We’ve seen this over the past couple of qualifying periods and races. George was performing nicely in Q3 however was simply missing half a tenth to safe pole in opposition to Max.

“For Lewis this era of automobiles aren’t at all times suiting his driving model, he likes to be aggressive on nook entries and sadly this automotive in the intervening time can’t fairly take it, particularly on qualifying laps when it’s proper on the sting. Lewis within the race, nonetheless, normally manages to show it round like final week the place he was overtaking automotive after automotive and coming by means of the pack. We’ll see what tomorrow brings and hopefully we will ship one other good end result with each automobiles for the Staff.”

Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director

“The Dash Race was a bit irritating, George misplaced a spot into flip 1, he could not fairly tuck in and misplaced a little bit of floor to Piastri by not having a tow. It felt like we have been near getting a move on a few events however as soon as Lando was serving to him out with DRS it was inconceivable to get by means of. Lewis had a superb begin, getting as much as P5 however took a bit an excessive amount of out of the tyres and dropped a spot from there. It is a disgrace that the DRS zone was shortened for this 12 months because it’s at all times troublesome to move on the dash races with everybody on the identical age tyres, this has simply made it even tougher.

“Qualifying was cheap however irritating for George to finish up lower than 60ms off pole for the second day in a row. The automotive was working nicely. It felt like George had a superb shot at pole with a powerful first lap however our second run wasn’t clear and he failed to enhance. Lewis was missing a little bit of rear stability in locations which was stopping him going any faster however P6 will nonetheless put us within the combat on the entrance. From the Dash this morning it appears like the long term efficiency may be very related between all of the automobiles so it ought to make for an attention-grabbing race.”

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