WINNER
It ’ s been an interesting two years since my last victory so it feels awesome for sure , I ’ m very grateful for it . The start was interesting . I didn ’ t get a great launch off the line . I saw Seb , I think it was on the inside of me , got a better run . I think Max also had a decent start from memory and it seemed like everyone went to the inside and it didn ’ t look like there was a whole lot of room and Seb went even deeper . So it looked like he went a little bit deep and it looked like the inside sort of washed out . Everyone sort of tried to out-brake each other , at least from what I say . My average start and more cautious approach into Turn One actually worked out but that ’ s just how it goes sometimes . Yeah , got into P2 and then was just trying to do my thing in the race . The long run on Friday wasn ’ t very good , we made a lot of changes , so after Friday if I would have said I ’ d win the race in dry conditions ... nothing is ever impossible but it was looking like it was close to be . Just tried to do our thing . Max pitted under the Virtual Safety Car at the beginning , put the soft on and at that point it looked like his strategy was working out very well for him . So then I had to hold him off towards that mid-part of the race , just as Lewis had his problems . It was a good battle .