Isack Hadjar had a very difficult weekend in Bahrain, and the race was just as complicated as the qualifications. The Racing Bulls driver says that his departure was the starting point for a race during which nothing went as planned.
“Until now we have always taken very good starts, but all weekend we had a lot of trouble and we were not very aware. I do not do a very good job on the procedure but we are moving in. We lose two or three places before the first turn and then it is the spiral, each decision I take is bad, nothing was going” regret Hadjar.
After that, the strategy attempted was to save the furniture, but the safety car completed its last hopes: “Our strategy was based on a successful departure. We find ourselves 16th in tender, it is not the right choice, we tried the Undercut, the pace was not bad, but the safety car killed us.”
Liam Lawson finished 17th, where he started. He has experienced several clashes and underwent several penalties, and all, according to him, leaves a bad qualification: “I was in the gearbox of another car all the race.”
“I had a good rhythm but I could not take advantage of it. When I attacked, I launched myself late and I did not touch the others in an intentional way. It’s like that, the last relay was correct but it’s a shame.”
“We have no result to prove our good pace, but the car was fast in qualifying. We could not show it, it was fast in the race also but we could not do anything from the back of the grid.”
