"When you are last after six laps anything is a gain, but we could have got on to the podium", Vettel said.
The Red Bull driver made a strong start to surge from fifth to second place, passing Kimi Räikkönen off the line before sweeping around the outside of Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas into Turn 1.
"We came out last and I knew we could recover because the vehicle is quick, but we had to fight our way through the field which is a lot of work and not easy". He ran over my front wing. But I had Lewis in front so I couldn't really brake any later or I push him off.
And with Verstappen turning in for the corner, he caught and damaged Vettel's front wing.
"I have had a lot of disappointments recently, I guess that's racing but sometimes you get exhausted of it". "Or third, if things turned out a little bit less for me". "I was surprised because I was so much faster and I thought it should be straightforward to pass them but also is not just that the tow effect with two cars in front of you, it's also that the loss of downforce is quite big, so I was sliding quite a lot, more than I thought". I wanted to accelerate again and then everything went dark, I couldn't even communicate anymore, absolutely nothing.
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"We know that this circuit is not our favourite and doesn't particularly suit us so P5 was the best we could aim for, we achieved that so I'm pleased with the result", said Verstappen.
Asked how he felt about Red Bull's prospects at the next race in Azerbaijan, Verstappen replied: "I don't care too much".
"I mean, the target going into the race, or the imagination I guess, was a different one", he said. "A lap longer we could've been third, but would, could, should".
Verstappen briefly challenged race leader Lewis Hamilton at the restart but soon settled into a rhythm in second spot, only to pull to the side of the track with a problem a few laps later. "The pace was there and the auto deserved to finish higher up".
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