CLOSING THE GAP WITH FOURTH AND FIFTH IN CHINA
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'I moved over for Daniel once I knew that we were on different strategies. When I was first asked, I didn't understand as we were on the same tire, unlike in Bahrain, so I double checked. When the team said we were on a different strategy, I moved over and then, as the race went on, I saw more and more that I didn't have the pace. There was no point in holding Dan back. I'm not yet where I want to be with the car, but it's an on-going process,' he added. 'Hopefully at the next few races we will make some more steps in the right direction. Our weakness isn't in the corners, but on the straights. The first stint today was okay but after that I'm not sure what happened.' Team Principal Christian said that the day's work had yielded a 'solid result.' 'I think the wet conditions in qualifying yesterday helped us get higher starting positions up the grid,' he said. 'In today's dry race, ultimately fourth and fifth is realistically where we were this weekend. Mercedes again were particularly strong and Ferrari carried their form through from Friday into a dry race today. Fourth and fifth is still a solid result with good points. Heading back to Europe we know we have a lot of work to do.' He added that in the mid-race battle between Seb and Dan it had been the champion's tire wear that had defined the call to allow Daniel to pass. 'Sebastian made a great start, but then appeared to go through the tires quicker than Daniel,' he said. 'After the first stop, it was apparent Seb's degradation was particularly worse than Daniel, so we looked at switching him to a three-stop and therefore released Daniel who was very much focused on a two-stop at that point. Thereafter Daniel was able to close the gap to Alonso, but unfortunately we didn't have enough to get onto the podium today.'
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