FW17 wrote: ↑

06 May 2024, 08:45

Wouter wrote: ↑

06 May 2024, 08:43

MIAMI GP!

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Hope the team retains the livery for the rest of the year.

2024 Driver Standings

Pos ----- Driver ------ Nationality ----- Car ----- PTS

9 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes 27
10 Yuki Tsunoda JPN RB Honda RBPT 14
11 Lance Stroll CAN Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes 9
12 Oliver Bearman GBR Ferrari 6
13 Nico Hulkenberg GER Haas Ferrari 6
14 Daniel Ricciardo AUS RB Honda RBPT 5
15 Esteban Ocon FRA Alpine Renault 1
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2024 Constructor Standings

Pos ----- Team ----- PTS

1 Red Bull Racing Honda RBPT 239
2 Ferrari 187
3 McLaren Mercedes 124
4 Mercedes 64
5 Aston Martin Aramco Mercedes 42
6 RB Honda RBPT 19
7 Haas Ferrari 7
8 Alpine Renault 1
9 Williams Mercedes 0
10 Kick Sauber Ferrari 0

“The number of points we achieved was a lot for us,” Tsunoda said media including RN 365. “It shows how hard the people who are in the background in the factory working, pushing. It's incredible and we're happy to score the points we deserve."

What helped with the good results: upgrades to the floor and the diffuser.
“We got some upgrades this week and I think that helped a lot.
Right from the first free practice I felt comfortable and on Saturday Daniel took P4. And during a long stint we achieved P7 and were even faster than one of the Mercedes [Russell]. We have never achieved anything like this in the first races, the progress we are making is insane"

Drivers and Team’s quotes after the Miami race

Yuki Tsunoda #22
Race – Pos. 7th

“Very happy, what a great job by the team! It’s been an incredible week in which we scored in both races. We kind of expected we would have a good performance here but the most important thing is that we achieved it. As a team, we stuck to our plan and didn’t make any mistakes today. As for me, overall, I’m happy with my driving even though I made a mistake at the start. I reset myself and kept going, and especially in the last stint where I was just driving by myself, I was pushing and able to achieve similar lap times to the cars in front. The team developed a great car and I appreciate them a lot. The amount of push from the factory is incredible and in the end, we were able to score well-deserved points. We were able to progress quickly from the start of the season, so I’m looking forward to the future. The next race in Imola is kind of another home race for me, so I hope we’ll be able to continue our rhythm and achieve a good result in front of our home crowd, especially people from the factory. Everyone is doing a fantastic job and we’ll definitely keep pushing!”

Daniel Ricciardo #3
Race – Pos. 15th

“Entering the race you always have some optimism, but yesterday’s quali hurt, and unfortunately, I think was the shape of today’s race. We were stuck in traffic in the race and were simply not quick enough to come through the field. When we were surrounded by the other cars and fighting with them, we struggled a lot to use our pace compared to what we did yesterday in the Sprint with the clean air. Compared to other cars, I think that with our setup we were quite down on straight-line speed. I couldn’t do anything and was stuck behind them. We’ll definitely be looking into it in our debrief, but generally, we know that we have to qualify better, like I did on Friday, which has also been the mirror of yesterday’s Sprint. Taking the positives, the team leaves Miami very happy; I had a good Sprint-qualifying and Sprint in the previous days, and Yuki also got some points today. I’m also genuinely happy for Lando, big congratulations to him, he is a rival but also a friend. I know how talented he is and I knew it was just a matter of time for him to take his first win.”

Guillaume Dezoteux (Head Of Vehicle Perfomance)
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Laurent Mekies (Team Principal)
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