It’s Wednesday already but I haven’t got the race report up yet. So from now on this will be called “Wednesday’s with AMR” so I have an excuse to post them this late .

Sepang/Sakhir International Circuit, Sunday 14 August

Malaysia was another great weekend for us after both cars successfully make it to Q3, with Stoffel Vandoorne qualifying 7th and Daniil Kvyat qualifying 8th. Kvyat stormed his way to 5th, bringing home a further 10 points while Vandoorne was again met with some bad luck, retiring on lap 21 due to no fault of his own.

The same can’t be said for Bahrain though. Qualifying went as expected with Kvyat getting the slight edge on his teammate this time, qualifying 7th. Vandoorne qualified 9th. In the race, Vandoorne was the luckier one this weekend finishing 10th and bringing home a valuable point. Meanwhile, his teammate’s run of points ended after an engine failure on lap 51.

DANIIL KVYAT

Race: Malaysia Bahrain Started: 8th 7th Finished: 5th DNF (lap 51, 18th) Fastest Lap: 1m45.524s (on lap 35) 1m41.107 (on lap 43) Tyres Used: H, S, S M, SS, SS

“Malaysia went well but I can’t say the same for Bahrain. I was having a good race, I think I was in 6th actually. I didn’t feel anything was wrong with the car. I guess I knew it was coming, seeing how Stoffel hadn’t finished any of the races before this.

“But this is F1, for sure some things are just unpredictable and I just have to accept that things don’t always go the way we plan it to.”

STOFFEL VANDOORNE

Race: Malaysia Bahrain Started: 7th 9th Finished: DNF (lap 21, 16th) 10th Fastest Lap: 1m46.682s (on lap 19) 1m41.129 (on lap 43) Tyres Used: H, S M, SS, SS

“I don’t know what happened back in Malaysia. I was just minding my own business when all of a sudden a Haas car came out of nowhere and by the time I saw it, it was too late to do anything.

“But I’m pretty happy with how Bahrain turned out. The car felt great all weekend, and I finally got my first point for the team.”

/u/jeppe96 – Team Principal, Aston Martin Racing

“I’m very happy that we finished in the points for the second race in a row, which underlines that our plan for entering Model F1 is working.

“We’re still working out some reliability issues with Stoffel’s car, but he should be joining Daniil in the points regularly as the season progresseses.”