Sunday, 7 November 2021
-    Race: P6, 75 laps

• Carlos had to avoid several incidents in the first corner and thus fell to sixth place.
• The Spanish Ferrari race driver then took care of his tyres during the first stint, pitting on Lap 42 after the majority of his rivals. This left him in a position to attack in the closing stages of the race.
• On Lap 56, his teammate gave him the fifth place so he could try to catch Pierre Gasly, but the AlphaTauri was too far away and in the final laps of the race the team decided to hand back the position to Charles.
• With this result, Scuderia Ferrari moves past McLaren and up to third in the Constructors’ Championship.

QUOTES:
“It was one of my best race this season in terms of pace as I was very fast for the entire weekend and also in the race on both Medium and Hard tyres. Starting on the dirty side was, as expected, very difficult and then I was unlucky with the accident in front of me, as I had to slam the brakes to avoid Bottas and then Ricciardo with a broken front wing, losing some positions".

“I was able to retake immediately the position from Giovinazzi at the restart and then my pace was always solid. We did very good pit stops with both cars and in the final part of the race I had more pace than Charles, so I believe it was the right call to swap positions and not take unnecessary risks. If we had raced each other the opportunity to catch Gasly would have been even more difficult. At the end of the race we swapped positions again as part of the team strategy".

"Today we brought home a good amount of points compared to our direct rivals and we are now in front of them. That, together with my strong pace all weekend are the important positives to take from Mexico for me. On to Brazil!".

COMING UP:
Brazilian GP, Interlagos – 12-14 November 2021