A great start enabled him to put pressure on race-winner Ricciardo, but the Australian forced him out the track during the first lap. Carlos lost two positions and fell behind his teammate.

Carlos was stuck in traffic after his second pit-stop, which compromised the degradation of his front tyres and his pace.

Carlos scores two points for the World Championship as the sport travels to Baku for the Azerbaijan GP (April 29).



QUOTES:

"I did a good start and managed to overtake my teammate Nico [Hülkenberg] and then Checo [Pérez]. Then I went for a Red Bull, but he squeezed me out during the first lap and lost my position to Nico".

"After my second pit-stop I had to push my tyres too much, but I had a lot of degradation and it was very difficult to attack the cars in front".

"I am happy that our two cars are in the points, but I still have work to do with my engineers to put the car to my taste".