that’s the aim of the   game. The aim is to try and understand  the car faster than our competitors. Why were we so competitive on Friday  compared to Saturday and Sunday?  That’s a really good question and it’s a question  that we are trying to answer at the moment.   I think if you were to look at Friday’s running  It. it was probably the most competitive we’ve been   at any point through the season so far. Between  Friday.

Friday and Saturday we Will. will have made some changes   and actually those changes Were. were fairly minor,  but there were also changes in conditions   and we need to go Through. through all of that  data, extract as much understanding as   we can from that and use that to move  forward over the next couple of races. Was Lewis’s car damaged in the  first lap contact with Alonso?  The answer to that question is no, we don’t  think so. The contact was wheel to wheel   And.

and as always, we have lots of engineers looking  at the data that is pouring off the car so   the aerodynamicists are looking at  pressure Taps.

taps on the floors and wings,   they are looking at the push Rod. rod loads and our  Chief Engineer will be Looking. looking at all the other   suspension loads and making sure that they are  doing what they are supposed to be doing. So,  . So,   we can very quickly tell whether There. there is an  issue with the car and there was no issue to find. Was the Strategy. strategy with George . George  always to go long or was that   something that came with the circumstances? I think you can tell by the fact that we   fitted the Hard, we kept our Options. options open.  Our plan was always to be able to run an   offset strategy relative to the Cars. cars around  us, So,. so, by an offset strategy what I mean Is,  . is,   if you’ve got a car which you think might have a  pace advantage, you want to be running a different   strategy to the cars around you. That way, if you  get caught up in a DRS train, you always are going   to get to a portion of the race where you are  going to get some clean air when the others pit   and you are able to then run long and that’s what  we had in mind with George. Added to That. that there Is  .

is   also the potential benefit of safety cars. If the  safety car came out after the others have pitted,   you end up with a Clear. clear advantage and that’s how  it obviously played out for George. I have to say,   George drove a fantastic race this weekend.  Starting on the Hard tyre when his competitors   around him Where. where on the Medium. Alright, we lost  a couple of places at the start but George kept   his head, he Did. did all Of.

of the right things,  he waited for the tyres to come towards him   and as we started to get heat into the harder  tyres and as the Medium tyres started To