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Pierre Gasly has summed up his race like this:

“I feel it is the right weekend, as a result of seventh in quali was undoubtedly one of the best place we might get, and within the race it was the identical. The high 6 was out of attain, however on the identical time we completed solely 7 seconds behind Lewis, which for me is a really optimistic signal.

“And then 19 seconds in entrance of Liam, who was P9, so we had been clearly extra on the higher practice, within the higher group. And then yeah, as we stated, it was a fairly intense race.

“We all know Max is rarely giving up, and for 28 laps he was simply placing so much of stress. We had been sturdy in numerous elements of the lap, so yeah, it simply made my life not too simple.

“Every single lap coming into 16, making sure in Turn 1, taking the gaps after the first sector, Turn 11 he was pretty strong, so I had to play a bit smart with my battery whenever I could see it was getting close. I think overall we managed it very well, but it was definitely pretty intense.”