Horner after GP Bahrain: "Our cars looked in good contention"

Published on 16 April 2017 by Bryan van Berlo

Christian Horner reviews the Bahrain Grand Prix with mixed feelings. Max Verstappen retired in the thirteenth lap after a problem with his brakes, while Daniel Ricciardo had to give his fourth starting position way to Kimi Raikkonen.

"After an exciting opening to the race up to the first pit stops, our cars looked in good contention with Max having made a good start. He managed to move up acouple of places and we pitted reasonably early for an undercut but unfortunately shortly after a rear brake pressure issue caused his immediate retirement which brought out the safety car. We stopped Daniel under the safety car but lost some time behind Lewis as he deliberately slowed in the pit lane for which he was later penalized. Nonetheless we were still able to get out ahead of him and at that stage for the restart we were third on the road."

Ricciardo couldn't hold on to this position: "It became very quickly apparent that Daniel struggled to warm up the soft tyre compared to our competitors and dropped several places before recovering one against Massa. With the final stint on the supersoft tyre unfortunately fifth place was the best that we could achieve today."