As for Hulkenberg, the German was one other who couldn’t make a lot progress via the sphere on Sunday. He was on the identical medium-hard tyre technique as the vast majority of the sphere, and got here residence behind the Alpine of Doohan.
“The automobile didn’t really feel too unhealthy at present, and I might have favored the prospect to discover its full potential a bit extra,” Hulkenberg stated afterwards. “However Suzuka is a monitor the place overtaking is notoriously troublesome, and that actually outlined the race.
“I spent more often than not in site visitors, which made it exhausting to make any actual progress and finally turned it into a reasonably uneventful race. That’s clearly a bit irritating.
“We all know there’s nonetheless work to do – each when it comes to general tempo and automobile traits – and at present’s race underlined that when once more. It‘s nonetheless early within the season and we proceed to be taught with each race weekend.”
