Every day, in every race, there is something to learn, and today's lesson was a tough one to take in for the entire team.
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That was a difficult day. We pushed very hard at the beginning of the race, and we suffered from that in the later stages.
Alex starts tomorrow's Grand Prix in a good position and has an opportunity to fight for a points-scoring position. Logan starts a little further back, but he has the pace to progress.
From what we saw this afternoon, the soft has definitely shown itself to be a valid choice, even over quite a long stint.
We decided to partially sacrifice today's race, with a view to being in better shape for the Grand Prix.
It was always going to be a stretch to recover to the points-paying positions, but today's mileage will be helpful for optimising our long-run pace ahead of tomorrow's Grand Prix.
We now shift our focus to tomorrow where we'll need to fight our way back up to the points to finish the weekend on a high.
It's a very disappointing result, starting P11 and P12 and finishing where we finished, it's not good enough.
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