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Visa Cash App RB’s Liam Lawson ended the day in 16th spot, one ahead of the Mexican, while Japanese driver Yuki Tsunoda did not finish at the 2024 Formula 1 Mexico City Grand Prix.
Liam Lawson
It was a frustrating race, not the result we wanted. With the speed we had this weekend, we could have scored points. It’s very disappointing to come away with nothing this weekend, especially when we had a package that was strong. We needed that clean air and, unfortunately, spent the whole race behind the gearbox of another car. We had incidents throughout and tried the strategy that worked last week, but it didn’t work today. We’ll learn from that and try to do a better job next week.
Yuki Tsunoda
There just wasn’t enough space. It was a racing incident. It was very tricky. We wouldn’t have been in that position if I had qualified where our actual pace was. I’m very sorry to the team. They did a fantastic job preparing everything from yesterday. I want to make it up to them in Brazil.
Laurent Mekies – Team Principal
It’s very frustrating to leave Mexico with no points. We feel the car has improved in the last two races with the updates we introduced in Austin. We had a further update this weekend on Yuki’s car only, but both drivers should have it next week in Brazil. It’s been one of our most competitive weekends in quite a while. In terms of pure pace, it’s clear that in all three free practice sessions, both cars are running in the top 10 nearly the whole time. Yesterday, Yuki’s crash was costly as the domino effect also prevented Liam from getting to Q3, but that’s motor racing. The weekend was derailed from that point onwards, and on the opening lap of the race, Yuki was the unfortunate victim of some squeezing, which is the sort of incident that can happen in the midfield. Liam used an inverted strategy to jump some of the cars ahead. He had a solid first stint and some good fights throughout the race, but it didn’t work for him, as he found a lot of traffic in the second part of the race. The contact with Colapinto pretty much ended any slight chance of fighting for points. We will focus on having a smoother weekend in São Paulo in a few days’ time and push very hard to see where the car’s recent upturn in pace can take us.
