Contrary to what Fernando Alonso suggested, Lewis Hamilton says battling from the back of the grid “is way more fun than starting first and pulling away”.
Mattia Binotto says Safety Car rules “were discussed with the FIA, F1 and the teams”, and they decided “that the current format is probably the right one to keep”.
Andreas Seidl says changes to Safety Car rules were discussed after Abu Dhabi, but “in the end we voted that the regulations should stay as they have been”.
After Nyck de Vries’s fantastic F1 race debut at the Italian GP, his friend George Russell said “to score points on your debut in a Williams” is “pretty spectacular”.