charles to canal post WIN in silverstone!
int: charles, thank you for joining us with that big smile. i’ll try again, what was your secret, what did you change on the car to get this first victory since austin 24, 37 gp without a win?
charles: it’s been too long! but i’m really happy because it’s true that i have always been extremely honest about how i feel and what i do but it does expose me a bit because when i say after the sprint ‘i think i found something, if it works i’m happy’, i still need to prove it on track. yesterday it went really well in quali but i still had this doubt about the race, whether the feeling would be good and the feeeling was amazing so i’m very very happy. it has been difficult recently and we worked so hard, i know that from the outside ir’s not necessarily obvious sometimes but we did everything to find that feeling back and today it was the case so i’m grateful for all the work the team has done. it wasn’t easy, not for me but not for my side of the team either. i’m very happy that we’re back on the top step of the podium
int: we can see your joy and relief. there were two big moments, the start and the end of the race when we didn’t know if it would re-start or not, tell us about it?
charles: the first moment was positive because yesterday the start hadn’t gone well. today i knew i needed it to be good because otherwise it would cost a lot so i was happy about the start. then the pace was there and the feeling also but we were also lucky with kimi, sometimes it’s needed, it would have been hard to keep him behind without that. once he had this issue, i told myself, now i just need to manage the car. i owuldon owuldadioowulduld take any risks, i won’t take the kerns, ,’i’ll try to be careful’ because i had also heard that the mercedes had had a puncture. i needed to be careful. then we had the safety car, i thought to myself ‘not again’, it wasn’t great that have that news in the car but the biggest issue, and we may talk about it in the next debrief, was that the car needed to slow down for the rest of the grid, i think we didn’t go faster than 140 km/h and my tires were freezing cold. if there had been a restart, it owuld have been extremely complicated but in the end we won anyway so i'm happy.
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