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DANIEL RICCIARDO RACE DRIVER #3

Daniel Ricciardo matched his best result in colours after a superb fourth place at Silverstone on Sunday. The Australian kept his cool amongst the chaos, as he sets his sights on doing it all over again this weekend for the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix.

Q&A How do you reflect on the first Silverstone race? What will you do in the week to prepare for the race? It was crazy out there towards the end. It really was amazing, These high-speed circuits do take it out from you, so I’ll do a bit and we managed to get a decent reward from it by having good of recovery throughout the early part of the week. I’ll rest a bit pace right to the chequered flag. It was important to have a and then build up some training ready for the weekend. It still solid start to the race and keep in touch with those ahead of feels quite strange not to be flying off anywhere after the race us, which we managed well. It felt really good, and a morale and that we’ll be back at the same circuit for a race only a few booster for the team, but, as always, we want more. We were 1.1 days apart. The routine is nice, so I’m looking forward to it. seconds from a podium, so we’re heading the right way. Let’s do it!

What will be different about this weekend? We’ll be hoping for a similar result, that’s for sure. And, who knows, maybe we can! I think the weather looks to be hot again all weekend and that will bring some challenges. It was also very windy at Silverstone and that makes things tricky in a Formula 1 car. We’re heading a step softer on tyres, which will certainly be interesting. We don’t see that many two-stop races and this one should be a two-stopper, so we’ll see what happens there. The aim will be to nail our qualifying and see if we can sneak a little further up for the start. Our race pace has been good, so let’s see what we can do.

We want more. We were 1.1 seconds from a podium, so we’re heading the right way

Daniel Ricciardo

ESTEBAN OCON RACE DRIVER #31

It was a thrilling race for at Silverstone, as he claimed his best result in Formula 1 since the 2018 Italian Grand Prix. The French driver targets another opportunity this weekend for the second Silverstone race.

Q&A

What positives can you draw from the race? How do you plan to spend your preparation? It was a really good team result with 20 points between both I’m doing some recovery training first as it’s quite a physical cars. I think it’s down to the hard work between Enstone and race at Silverstone. I’ll continue with some preparation work Viry and bouncing back from Budapest. We worked hard to with the team and engineers to make sure we’re ready for find improvements to make sure we went into Silverstone Friday and ready to get straight on with the job. In between knowing a good result was possible. The car was awesome that, I’ll fit in some chill time and recover some energy! in the race. It helped that we had a decent start, keeping my place and staying close to a group of cars ahead. We managed the Hard tyre really well and had good pace at the end to progress some places. We definitely deserved the result and that makes us want even more this weekend.

What are your thoughts on this weekend’s event? After a result like that at the first Silverstone race, we definitely have the motivation to do the same, if not even better this weekend. One thing I think we can improve is qualifying. In Q1 and Q2 we were clearly a top eight, maybe even a top six, car and then in Q3 we just couldn’t quite get it together. If we can start higher up the order, our race pace is definitely good enough to take some big points. We have different tyres this weekend, so Friday will be about seeing what we can do with them and identifying our strategy for both qualifying and the race.

If we can start higher up the order, our race pace is definitely good enough to take some big points.

Esteban Ocon

PUSH AND PREPARE MATT HARMAN, ENGINEERING DIRECTOR , RENAULT DP WORLD F1 TEAM

The team recorded one of its best results since returning to the sport at last weekend’s British Grand Prix. Now the focus is back on Silverstone, as Engineering Director Matt Harman looks ahead to the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix.

Q&A

How would you evaluate the team’s performance at the British Grand Prix? What are we expecting this weekend? It was a very good performance throughout the weekend. We had a well-executed There will be some new challenges this weekend. The tyres are a compound softer Friday, which set us up for Saturday where we performed to our expectations. so that will change our race and qualifying strategy. We’ve looked through some Clearly, the race was a good result with double figure points as the reward. We simulations and which car setup to take for the weekend. We have some interesting took some updates to the car, both aerodynamically and mechanically, and they mechanical developments to go on the car in very specific areas. This will allow us to both performed as per our expectations. We also gathered a decent level of improve our performance, and also help our understanding for next year’s car, which understanding for future developments. The drivers gave good feedback on the is an evolution of the current one. updates, in particular with car consistency between runs, which is important.

Overall, a very good weekend for us both from an engineering perspective and from How difficult is it to keep up development with staff working remotely? a results perspective, however, we know we’re not at the competitive level we’d like It is quite difficult to manage, but we’ve adapted incredibly well. As a team, we are to be and we will continue pushing for more. flexible in our work anyway and I think that has served us well. We’ve operated all our test systems, validated components, completed aero correlation; all the We also had a reliable car all weekend and that was clearly something we had to things we normally do but in very different circumstances. I’ve been quite proud work on from the first two races. We will keep working hard on reliability further into of everybody in that regard. Everybody has been tenacious in making it happen the season. It’s been a big effort from the factory during these quite challenging and getting around problems, so that’s been really good. The main issue comes in circumstances to overcome the issues from the first two races. creating a new car design without organic conversation and on-site collaborations. It’s difficult to do that remotely, but we’re getting back into it.

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“It’s been a great weekend in terms of pace and race performance. Academy Drivers and both took podiums We’ve been strong in qualifying, but this weekend we were stronger in the race. The reverse strategy and fastest lap in race in the FIA Formula 2 Championship at the weekend at Silverstone. one was really nice. In the Sprint race, I started seventh and made some great moves, including a double overtake into Stowe. I had After starting from eighth on the grid, Zhou ran the reverse Hard to Medium strategy in the an opportunity for a podium, I went for it around the outside of Maggots and Becketts but I lost the rear and finished ninth. It Feature Race, charging through the field at the end of the race to finish in second place. was a bit unlucky, but I’m not too upset as I gave it everything. I’m looking forward to this weekend. We were fast last weekend but Christian looked set for his first Feature Race podium on Saturday after maintaining third we have to stay focused, it won’t be easy and we’ll aim to do even better.” place but he was pipped three corners from the end and settled for fourth.

GUANYU ZHOU The Danish driver enjoyed a superb Sprint Race, charging from fifth on the grid to second at the chequered flag after a late surge on fresh tyres. “It was a good weekend in terms of championship points. The Sprint race was good. We had a decent start to move to second and then the team called a mega strategy. It wasn’t my decision to pit, so I’m extremely happy for the team. We lost a bit of time during the stop and could have won the race, but second and fastest lap is still good. I’m happy, we’ll aim to carry the momentum into this weekend. We have decent data and I feel comfortable at the track.”

CHRISTIAN LUNDGAARD

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PIASTRI MAINTAINS CHAMPIONSHIP ADVANTAGE, DISAPPOINTMENT FOR FEWTRELL AT HOME EVENT

“It was a disappointing weekend after a good qualifying. Our pace Renault Sport Academy Driver claimed his fourth FIA Formula 3 podium with a was there to fight for the win, but it all ended early with a DNF in Race 1. This put the whole of the weekend on the back foot and it second place in race one at Silverstone. was over from there. I’m looking forward to going straight back in this weekend and having another go!”

Oscar moves onto 94 points in the championship despite a retirement in race two, as he looks forward to the second Silverstone round this weekend.

Max Fewtrell qualified an excellent fourth on Friday but his weekend turned into disaster after a Turn 4 incident in the first race saw the Briton forced wide and pushed down the order. He could not recover from there, retiring from race one and finishing twentieth in race two. “Overall it was a solid weekend in Silverstone. I didn’t quite maximise qualifying in third, but still, it was a very strong starting position for Race 1 where I finished in second. Unfortunately, multiple late safety cars stopped me from fighting for the win. Race 2 wasn’t ideal, I got pushed off the track a couple of times at the beginning of the race, then had my DRS stuck open meaning I had to retire. I’m very excited to be heading back to Silverstone again. They couldn’t have picked many better tracks for multiple rounds! Our pace was very strong in the first round, so I expect to be challenging for maximum points this weekend.”

OSCAR PIASTRI

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WHITE HARD (C2) YELLOW MEDIUM (C3) RED SOFT (C4)

DANIEL 2 3 8

ESTEBAN 2 3 8

DANIEL AT SILVERSTONE

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ESTEBAN AT SILVERSTONE

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