Singapore GP: Williams Martini Race Review
By Williams Martini Racing
September 19 2016
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Singapore GP Race Review |
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Race Notes
• Felipe Massa finished 12th in the Singapore Grand Prix while Valtteri
Bottas was forced to retire
• Valtteri was hit by a McLaren at the start which gave him a puncture
and forced him to pit on lap two and rejoin at the back of the field
• Felipe started 11th and gained two positions at the start before the
safety car was deployed
• Valtteri was hampered by damage from the first lap and was eventually
forced to retire on lap 35 with mechanical issues
• Felipe ran as high as seventh but lost track position as the pitstops
unfolded and was 12th for the final stint of the race
• Both drivers retain their position in the Drivers’ Championship with
Valtteri seventh and Felipe ninth. The team is now fifth in the
Constructors’ Championship with 111 points, one point behind Force
India. |
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Felipe Massa:
"It was definitely a tough race. I’m not happy with everything that
happened. The race was going well in the beginning, but with the
strategy and being stuck in traffic things changed a little bit. Anyway,
that’s the way it was. We now need to concentrate on the next race and
try to score more points with both cars because today it wasn’t good." |
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Valtteri Bottas:
"It was really bad today. It all went wrong before Turn 1. Someone
touched my rear and I got a puncture, so we came into the pits. We went
back out again but we saw that there was some damage on the car, so the
pace was really poor. The car was sliding a lot and we didn’t really
have the speed. We tried to do everything that we could but then had a
mechanical problem so we had to retire." |
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Rob Smedley, Head of Vehicle
Performance:
"It was a difficult race, starting from 10th and 11th. Valtteri’s race
was almost done on that first lap when he got a puncture and dropped to
the back. We suspected he had mechanical damage after his last pitstop,
so the best thing to do was retire the car. For Felipe, we chose to go
on a three-stop strategy to give us a bigger tyre delta at the end, but
throughout the pit stops and through the traffic we just seemed to be on
the back foot. Coming out behind Gutierrez after that final stop cost us
because we might have been able to get onto the back of that Perez train
at the end, on a better tyre, but that’s racing. For a circuit like
this, and in terms of where we are in the championship, the damage has
been limited. The teams around us didn’t get the points they could have
done so we’ve been quite lucky." |
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Track Marina Bay Circuit,
Singapore
Lap Length 5.06 km / 3.14 miles |
Weather Warm and humid
Air: 30-31°C Track: 35-36°C |
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Time/Gap (Fastest Lap) |
Grid |
1 |
N Rosberg |
Mercedes |
1:55:48.950 (1:50.296) |
1 |
2 |
D Ricciardo |
Red Bull |
+0.488 (1:47.187) |
2 |
3 |
L Hamilton |
Mercedes |
+8.038 (1:47.752) |
3 |
12 |
F MASSA |
Williams Martini Racing |
+1 lap (1:51.455) |
11 |
DNF |
V BOTTAS |
Williams Martini Racing |
DNF (1:51.368) |
10 |
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