Giedo: Sunday in Bahrein - Race -

Weather

Race: Dry, sunny, air temp 31° / track temp 42° (start), 32° / 41° (lap 28), x° / x° (lap x)

Runplan

Giedo van der Garde

Start on medium tyres

Lap 2: pitstop 1, hard tyres

Lap 14: pitstop 2, medium tyres

Lap 24: pitstop 3, hard tyres

Lap 39: pitstop 4, medium tyres

Lap 47: pitstop 5, medium tyres

Finished: 21st

Fastest lap: 1.39.334 (lap 49)

Team Quotes

Giedo van der Garde, car 21, chassis CT03-#5: 

"I didn't have a great start but I was up to about 16th with a couple of other cars going into turn four and saw that Vergne had spun and was moving off the line. I tried to miss him but couldn't and we made contact which destroyed my front wing and basically ended my race on the first lap. I couldn't really do anything from that point so I just got my head down and pushed but after losing so much time with the unplanned stop on lap one, and having a delaminated right front after my fourth stop, there really wasn't anyone to race with. From that point I just made sure I brought the car home and used this as another step in my learning curve.

"Despite today it's been a good weekend for the team. The developments we put on my teammate's car have worked well and there's another step to come in Spain when I'll have the same package as Charles. From that point I think my season will look different. We'll be on tracks I know really well, from GP2, World Series and from F1, and with the updates we have coming we have reasons to be positive. The first four races have been exactly what I thought they would - pretty tough, but I'm learning all the time and the whole team's right behind me. I'm feeling really good physically and mentally and I can't wait to get started again in Barcelona."

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